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CVE-2025-14625: 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 on Windows (Nios II Command Shell modules), Altera Quartus Prime Lite on Windows (Nios II Command Shell modules) allows Search Order Hijacking.This issue affects Quartus Prime Standard: from 19.1 through 24.1; Quartus Prime Lite: from 19.1 through 24.1.

Affected products

• Intel(R) Quartus Prime Pro and Standard edition software: from 19.1 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://community.altera.com/kb/knowledge-base/how-to-mitigate-the-security-vulnerability-in-the-nios%C2%AE-ii-command-shell-utility/350185
• https://www.altera.com/security/security-advisory/asa-0005

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