# Entrust nShield Connect XC vulnerabilities

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/nshield-connect-xc  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Updated: 9 November 2026, 03:07 UTC. Rebuilt every hour.  
Data: https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/nshield-connect-xc.json  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

Junglewise Threat Intelligence has tracked 13 vulnerabilities in Entrust nShield Connect XC: 0 in the last 7 days and 0 in the last 90 days, 3 of them critical and 0 exploited in the wild. The most recent, CVE-2025-59704, was published on 2 December 2025.

## Counts

- Last 7 days: 0
- Last 30 days: 0
- Last 90 days: 0
- All time: 13 (3 critical, 0 exploited in the wild)

## About Entrust nShield Connect XC

nShield Connect XC is a hardware security appliance for cryptographic key management.

## Latest Entrust nShield Connect XC vulnerabilities

- [CVE-2025-59704: Entrust nShield HSM BIOS access without password authentication](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59704-entrust-nshield-hsm-bios-access-without-password-authentication) (medium, CVSS 4.6, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59703: Entrust nShield HSM physical tamper bypass and firmware access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59703-entrust-nshield-hsm-physical-tamper-bypass-and-firmware-access) (critical, CVSS 9.1, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59705: Entrust nShield HSM USB interface privilege escalation via physical access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59705-entrust-nshield-hsm-usb-interface-privilege-escalation-via) (medium, CVSS 6.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59702: Entrust nShield HSM tamper event falsification via physical access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59702-entrust-nshield-hsm-tamper-event-falsification-via-physical) (high, CVSS 7.2, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59701: Entrust nShield unencrypted SSD storage access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59701-entrust-nshield-unencrypted-ssd-storage-access) (medium, CVSS 4.1, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59700: Entrust nShield HSM recovery partition integrity vulnerability](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59700-entrust-nshield-hsm-recovery-partition-integrity-vulnerability) (low, CVSS 3.9, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59699: Entrust nShield privilege escalation via insecure GRUB bootloader](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59699-entrust-nshield-privilege-escalation-via-insecure-grub-bootloader) (medium, CVSS 6.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59698: Entrust nShield HSM insecure legacy bootloader access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59698-entrust-nshield-hsm-insecure-legacy-bootloader-access) (medium, CVSS 6.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59697: Entrust nShield privilege escalation via GRUB bootloader configuration](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59697-entrust-nshield-privilege-escalation-via-grub-bootloader) (high, CVSS 7.2, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59696: Entrust nShield Connect XC tamper event modification via chassis management](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59696-entrust-nshield-connect-xc-tamper-event-modification-via-chassis) (low, CVSS 3.2, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59695: Entrust nShield Connect XC firmware modification without authentication](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59695-entrust-nshield-connect-xc-firmware-modification-without) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59694: Entrust nShield Chassis Management Board unprotected boot chain](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59694-entrust-nshield-chassis-management-board-unprotected-boot-chain) (medium, CVSS 6.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59693: Entrust nShield Chassis Management Board privilege escalation via physical access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59693-entrust-nshield-chassis-management-board-privilege-escalation-via) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 2 Dec 2025)

## Most severe Entrust nShield Connect XC vulnerabilities

- [CVE-2025-59693: Entrust nShield Chassis Management Board privilege escalation via physical access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59693-entrust-nshield-chassis-management-board-privilege-escalation-via) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59695: Entrust nShield Connect XC firmware modification without authentication](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59695-entrust-nshield-connect-xc-firmware-modification-without) (critical, CVSS 9.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59703: Entrust nShield HSM physical tamper bypass and firmware access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59703-entrust-nshield-hsm-physical-tamper-bypass-and-firmware-access) (critical, CVSS 9.1, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59702: Entrust nShield HSM tamper event falsification via physical access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59702-entrust-nshield-hsm-tamper-event-falsification-via-physical) (high, CVSS 7.2, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59697: Entrust nShield privilege escalation via GRUB bootloader configuration](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59697-entrust-nshield-privilege-escalation-via-grub-bootloader) (high, CVSS 7.2, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59705: Entrust nShield HSM USB interface privilege escalation via physical access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59705-entrust-nshield-hsm-usb-interface-privilege-escalation-via) (medium, CVSS 6.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59699: Entrust nShield privilege escalation via insecure GRUB bootloader](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59699-entrust-nshield-privilege-escalation-via-insecure-grub-bootloader) (medium, CVSS 6.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59698: Entrust nShield HSM insecure legacy bootloader access](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59698-entrust-nshield-hsm-insecure-legacy-bootloader-access) (medium, CVSS 6.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59694: Entrust nShield Chassis Management Board unprotected boot chain](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59694-entrust-nshield-chassis-management-board-unprotected-boot-chain) (medium, CVSS 6.8, published 2 Dec 2025)
- [CVE-2025-59704: Entrust nShield HSM BIOS access without password authentication](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-59704-entrust-nshield-hsm-bios-access-without-password-authentication) (medium, CVSS 4.6, published 2 Dec 2025)

## Vulnerabilities per week

Nothing was published in the last eight weeks.

| Week of | Vulns | Critical | Exploited |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 Nov 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 Nov 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Other Entrust technologies

- [Entrust Nshield 5c](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/nshield-5c): 13 vulnerabilities
- [Entrust Nshield Hsmi](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/nshield-hsmi): 13 vulnerabilities

## Sources

NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, OSV, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, FIRST EPSS and vendor advisories. Rebuilt every hour. Cite as: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, "Entrust nShield Connect XC vulnerabilities", https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/nshield-connect-xc, 9 November 2026.