CVE-2025-59697

high

Description

Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c, and nShield HSMi through 13.6.11, or 13.7, allow a physically proximate attacker to escalate privileges by editing the Legacy GRUB bootloader configuration to start a root shell upon boot of the host OS. This is called F06.

References

https://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-6q4x-m86j-gfwj

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-02

Updated: 2025-12-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00016