CVE-2025-14599 (GCVE-0-2025-14599)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-06 21:30 – Updated: 2026-01-06 21:47
VLAI?
Title
Quartus® Prime Standard and Quartus® Prime Lite Security Advisory
Summary
Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in Altera Quartus Prime Standard
Installer (SFX)
on Windows, Altera Quartus Prime Lite
Installer (SFX)
on Windows allows Search Order Hijacking.This issue affects Quartus Prime Standard: from 23.1 through 24.1; Quartus Prime Lite: from 23.1 through 24.1.
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altera | Quartus Prime Standard |
Affected:
23.1 , ≤ 24.1
(custom)
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Nomenclature
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