CVE-2025-14599: Quartus® Prime Standard and Quartus® Prime Lite Security Advisory

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-427

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.

Affected products

Intel(R) Quartus Prime Pro and Standard edition software: from 23.1 before 25.1 — fixed in 25.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Intel(R) Quartus Prime Pro and Standard edition software 25.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.altera.com/security/security-advisory/asa-0005

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