CVE-2025-13663 Quartus Prime Pro Edition Installer Advisory
The Quartus Prime Pro Installer fails to check directory permissions, potentially allowing privilege escalation during installation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-13663?
CVE-2025-13663 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Altera Quartus Prime Pro, published on 11 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Under certain circumstances, the Quartus Prime Pro Installer for Windows does not check the permissions of the Quartus target installation directory if the target installation directory already exists.
Weakness: CWE-279
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13663?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Intel Quartus Prime.
How do I fix CVE-2025-13663?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13663 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-13663 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13663 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Altera Quartus Prime Pro
- CVE-2021-44454 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition
- CVE-2022-21174 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition
- CVE-2022-21203 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Standard Edition
- CVE-2022-21204 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition
- CVE-2022-21220 XML external entity in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pcg2-78c9-xj3v.