Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
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| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://www.entrust.com/use-case/why-use-an-hsm
- https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-6q4x-m86j-gfwj
- https://www.entrust.com/knowledgebase/hardware/understanding-nshield-security-advisory-september-2025
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g9v7-h8x8-w5vw
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
No references supplied.