CVE-2025-14625 Quartus® Prime Standard and Quartus® Prime Lite Security Advisory
Attackers can execute arbitrary code via search order hijacking in Quartus Prime Nios II Command Shell modules 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-2025-14625?
CVE-2025-14625 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Altera Quartus Prime Lite, 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 Standard on Windows (Nios II Command Shell modules), Altera Quartus Prime Lite on Windows (Nios II Command Shell modules) allows Search Order Hijacking.This issue affects Quartus Prime Standard: from 19.1 through 24.1; Quartus Prime Lite: from 19.1 through 24.1.
Weakness: CWE-427
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14625?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Intel Quartus Prime.
How do I fix CVE-2025-14625?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14625 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-2025-14625 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14625 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Altera Quartus Prime Lite
- 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-fg3w-gvfh-562h.