PSIRT Advisory – INTEL-SA-00816

DSP Builder for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition Software Advisory

Altera Security Advisory: INTEL-SA-00816
Advisory Category: Software
Impact of vulnerability: Escalation of Privilege
Severity rating: Medium
Original release: 05/09/2023
Last revised: 05/06/2026

Summary

Summary:
A potential security vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Builder software installer for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2022-43474

Description: Uncontrolled search path for the DSP Builder software installer before version 22.4 for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition 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

Affected products:
DSP Builder software installer before version 22.4 for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition.

Recommendations:
Intel recommends updating DSP Builder software to version 22.4 or later for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition.

Updates are available for download at this location:

Acknowledgements:
Intel would like to thank Marius Gabriel Mihai for reporting this issue.

Revision Date Description
1.0 05/09/2023 Initial Release
1.1 05/06/2026 Transfer Advisory to Altera.

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