PSIRT Advisory – INTEL-SA-01055

Summary:
Potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel® Quartus® Prime software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2024-21837

Description: Uncontrolled search path in some Intel® Quartus® Prime Lite Edition Design software before version 23.1 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-2024-21809

Description: Improper conditions check for some Intel® Quartus® Prime Lite Edition Design software before version 23.1 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-2024-21777

Description: Uncontrolled search path in some Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Design software before version 23.4 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-2024-21862

Description: Uncontrolled search path in some Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Design software before version 23.1 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:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Lite Edition Design software before version 23.1.
Intel® Prime Pro Edition Design software before version 23.4.
Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition software before version 23.1.

Recommendations:
Intel recommends updating Intel® Quartus® Prime Lite Edition Design software to version 23.1 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

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

Intel recommends updating Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Design software to version 23.4 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

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

Intel recommends updating Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Design software to version 23.1 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

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

Acknowledgements:
Intel would like to thank ycdxsb (CVE-2024-21837, CVE-2024-21862), hamdi aka FalconCorruption @falconCorrup (CVE-2024-21809, CVE-2024-21777) for reporting these issues.

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