{"id":"CVE-2025-59699","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-59699","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T05:26:12.096Z","title":"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 to escalate privileges by booting from a USB device with a valid root filesystem.","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 to escalate privileges by booting from a USB device with a valid root filesystem. This occurs because of insecure default settings in the Legacy GRUB Bootloader.","published":"2025-12-02T15:15:56.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-26T16:16:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-290"],"affected":["entrust/nshield 5c firmware","entrust/nshield hsmi firmware","entrust/nshield connect xc base firmware","entrust/nshield connect xc mid firmware","entrust/nshield connect xc high firmware"],"epss":{"score":0.00332,"percentile":0.26226,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g9v7-h8x8-w5vw","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-6q4x-m86j-gfwj","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.entrust.com/knowledgebase/hardware/understanding-nshield-security-advisory-september-2025","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm","tags":["Product"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59699","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}