🛡️ CVE-2025-59702 — nshield-5c-firmware

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with physical access to the device, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Physical — the attacker has to touch the device.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-59702 is classified as CWE-203: Observable Discrepancy. The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor.

Affected software

CVE-2025-59702 is recorded against 5 packages.

• nshield-5c-firmware (from 13.7 up to 13.9.0)
• nshield-connect-xc-base-firmware (from 13.7 up to 13.9.0)
• nshield-connect-xc-high-firmware (from 13.7 up to 13.9.0)
• nshield-connect-xc-mid-firmware (from 13.7 up to 13.9.0)
• nshield-hsmi-firmware (from 13.7 up to 13.9.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 2 December 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

nshield-5c-firmware has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2025-59693 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-59699 (6.8 Medium, published 2 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-59698 (6.8 Medium, published 2 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-59705 (6.8 Medium, published 2 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-59697 (7.2 High, published 2 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-59704 (4.6 Medium, published 2 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-59696 (3.2 Low, published 2 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-59703 (9.1 Critical, published 2 Dec 2025)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-203: Observable Discrepancy) in other software:

• CVE-2026-58445 (2.7 Low, published 13 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2025-13736 (3.7 Low, published 6 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-59640 (published 3 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-67193 (5.3 Medium, published 29 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-55555 (7.5 High, published 28 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-64713 (8.1 High, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-54999 (2.0 Low, published 27 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-44332 (5.3 Medium, published 24 Jul 2026)

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