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FKIE_CVE-2025-59704

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-02 16:15 - Updated: 2026-08-26 16:16

Severity

4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

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 an attacker to gain access the the BIOS menu because is has no password.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c73-5g33-8g22
cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-6q4x-m86j-gfwj	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.entrust.com/knowledgebase/hardware/understanding-nshield-security-advisory-september-2025
cve@mitre.org	https://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm	Product

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
entrust	nshield_5c_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_5c_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_5c	-
entrust	nshield_hsmi_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_hsmi_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_hsmi	-
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_base_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_base_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_base	-
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_mid_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_mid_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_mid	-
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_high_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_high_firmware	*
entrust	nshield_connect_xc_high	-

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CVE-2025-59704 (GCVE-0-2025-59704)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-02 00:00 – Updated: 2026-08-26 15:39

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-12-03 14:52 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm
https://github.com/google/security-research/secur…
https://www.entrust.com/knowledgebase/hardware/un…
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c73-5g33-8g22

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CVE-2025-59704 (GCVE-0-2025-59704)

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