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FKIE_CVE-2025-14625

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-07 12:16 - Updated: 2026-01-12 15:16

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	04c0172e-9735-4a9d-a92a-fe01fa863447	https://www.altera.com/security/security-advisory/asa-0005	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
intel	quartus_prime	*
intel	quartus_prime	*
microsoft	windows	-

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CVE-2025-14625 (GCVE-0-2025-14625)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-06 21:42 – Updated: 2026-01-06 21:49

Title

Quartus® Prime Standard and Quartus® Prime Lite Security Advisory

Summary

Severity ?

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

6.7 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Assigner

Altera

References

URL

Tags

https://www.altera.com/security/security-advisory…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Altera

Quartus Prime Standard

Affected: 19.1 , ≤ 24.1 (custom)

Altera

Quartus Prime Lite

Affected: 19.1 , ≤ 24.1 (custom)

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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FKIE_CVE-2025-14625

CVE-2025-14625 (GCVE-0-2025-14625)

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