CVE-2025-59699

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 25 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.33% (25th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

11 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-24

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 0.9 · impact 5.9

v3.16.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-290US

affected products (11)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
entrust nshield 5c firmware< 13.6.12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_5c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield 5c firmware13.7 → 13.9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_5c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield connect xc base firmware< 13.6.12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_base_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield connect xc base firmware13.7 → 13.9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_base_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield connect xc high firmware< 13.6.12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_high_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield connect xc high firmware13.7 → 13.9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_high_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield connect xc mid firmware< 13.6.12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_mid_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield connect xc mid firmware13.7 → 13.9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_mid_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield hsmi firmware< 13.6.12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_hsmi_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
entrust nshield hsmi firmware13.7 → 13.9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_hsmi_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-12-02modified 2026-08-26

references (11)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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