CVE-2025-13663 (GCVE-0-2025-13663)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-11 20:35
Modified
2025-12-11 21:03
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.4 (Medium) - 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
CWE
  • CWE-279 - Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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