High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Dec 2, 2025· Updated Aug 26, 2026
CVE-2025-59697
CVE-2025-59697
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 editing the Legacy GRUB bootloader configuration to start a root shell upon boot of the host OS. This is called F06.
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=13.7
- Range: <=13.7
- Range: <=13.7
- cpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_base_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: <13.6.12
- cpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_mid_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: <13.6.12
- cpe:2.3:o:entrust:nshield_connect_xc_high_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: <13.6.12
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