CVE-2025-59699_CVE-2025-59699

6.8 / 10

MEDIUM

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

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 booting from a USB device with a valid root filesystem. This occurs because of insecure default settings in the Legacy GRUB Bootloader.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-59699

Source mitre

Published Dec 2, 2025 at 00:00

Modified Dec 4, 2025 at 16:28

Affected Product

Vendor n/a

Product n/a

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CWE Classification

CWE-290

References

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