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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-59699 (MEDIUM 6.8) — 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 d

[NVD] CVE-2025-59699 (MEDIUM 6.8) — 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 d

lownvdPublished 2025-12-02

CVE-2025-59699 CVSS: 6.8 MEDIUM Published: 2025-12-02T15:15:55.537

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.

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-59699