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🛡️ CVE-2025-14599 — quartus-prime

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-427 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
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Description

Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in Altera Quartus Prime Standard

Installer (SFX)

on Windows, Altera Quartus Prime Lite 

Installer (SFX)

on Windows allows Search Order Hijacking.This issue affects Quartus Prime Standard: from 23.1 through 24.1; Quartus Prime Lite: from 23.1 through 24.1.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • 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-2025-14599 is classified as CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element. A writable directory appears in a search path, so a planted file can be loaded in place of the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2025-14599 is recorded against 1 package.

  • quartus-prime (from 23.1 up to 25.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 January 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.altera.com

Other advisories for this package

quartus-prime has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-427
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-01-07
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
quartus-prime 23.1 25.1

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