PSIRT Advisory – INTEL-SA-00714

Summary:
Potential security vulnerabilities in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow escalation of privilege or information disclosure. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2022-33892

Description: Path traversal in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.3 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2022-33902

Description: Insufficient control flow management in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.3 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2022-26840

Description: Improper neutralization in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.3 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2022-32570

Description: Improper authentication in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2022-26888

Description: Cross-site scripting in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 2.8 Low

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro edition software before version 22.2.
Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard edition software before version 22.1STD.

Recommendations:
Intel recommends updating the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro edition software to version 22.2 or later.
Intel recommends updating the Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard edition software to version 22.1STD or later.

Updates are available for download at these locations:

• https://www.altera.com/products/development-tools/quartus

Acknowledgements:
These issues were found externally. Intel would like to thank Julien Ahrens from RCE Security (CVE-2022-33892, CVE-2022-33902, CVE-2022-26840, CVE-2022-26888) for reporting these issues.

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