CVE-2025-14596 Quartus Prime Pro Edition Installer Advisory
An attacker can execute arbitrary code via search order hijacking in the Quartus Prime Pro installer on Windows.
- 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-2025-14596?
CVE-2025-14596 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Altera Quartus Prime Pro, published on 6 Jan 2026. 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
Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in Altera Quartus Prime Pro
Installer (SFX)
on Windows allows Search Order Hijacking.This issue affects Quartus Prime Pro: from 24.1 through 24.3.1.
Weakness: CWE-427
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14596?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Intel Quartus Prime.
How do I fix CVE-2025-14596?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14596 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-14596 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14596 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-5f84-6463-h54p.