Entrust nShield Connect XC/nShield 5c/nShield HSMi up to 13.6.11/13.7 Appliance SSD information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c and nShield HSMi up to 13.6.11/13.7. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Appliance SSD. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-59701. The attack can be executed directly on the physical device. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c and nShield HSMi up to 13.6.11/13.7. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Appliance SSD. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Entrust nShield Connect XC, nShield 5c, and nShield HSMi through 13.6.11, or 13.7, allow a physically proximate attacker (with elevated privileges) to read and modify the Appliance SSD contents (because they are unencrypted).

The advisory is available at entrust.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-59701 since 09/18/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Entrust

Name

• nShield 5c
• nShield Connect XC
• nShield HSMi

Version

• 13.0
• 13.1
• 13.2
• 13.3
• 13.4
• 13.5
• 13.6
• 13.6.0
• 13.6.1
• 13.6.2
• 13.6.3
• 13.6.4
• 13.6.5
• 13.6.6
• 13.6.7
• 13.6.8
• 13.6.9
• 13.6.10
• 13.6.11
• 13.7

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