Intel® Quartus Prime Pro Edition Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Quartus Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow escalation of privilege.** **Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2020-24481

Description: Insecure inherited permissions for the Intel® Quartus Prime Pro and Standard edition software may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7 Medium

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

Affected Products:

Intel® Quartus Prime Pro Edition before version 20.4.

Intel® Quartus Prime Standard Edition before version 20.1.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® Quartus Prime Pro Edition to version 20.4 or later.

Intel recommends updating Intel® Quartus Prime Standard Edition to version 20.1 or later.

Updates are available for download at these locations:

<http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=pro&gt;

<http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=standard&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Marius Gabriel Mihai for reporting this issue.

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.