# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 28 Jan 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fg3w-gvfh-562h

## 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 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14625?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-44454/): Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2022-21174](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-21174/): Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2022-21203](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-21203/): Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Standard Edition (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2022-21204](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-21204/): Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2022-21220](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-21220/): XML external entity in Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14625 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14625 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Altera Quartus Prime Lite. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14625/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14625/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14625
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14625
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14625

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14625/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.