CVE-2025-59700

low

Description

Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c, and nShield HSMi through 13.6.11, or 13.7 (patched in 13.6.12 (LTS) and 13.9.0 (STS)), allow a physically proximate attacker with root access to modify the Recovery Partition (because of a lack of integrity protection).

References

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

https://www.entrust.com/knowledgebase/hardware/understanding-nshield-security-advisory-september-2025

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

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qmq3-q8h7-g3v7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-02

Updated: 2026-08-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.9

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

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018