CVE-2025-14599

Quartus® Prime Standard and Quartus® Prime Lite Security Advisory

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Jan 6, 2026
Updated: Jan 6, 2026
Reserved: Dec 12, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	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	Altera
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Altera

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Quartus Prime StandardAltera	23.1 through 24.1Affected
Quartus Prime LiteAltera	23.1 through 24.1Affected

References

https://www.altera.com/security/security-advisory/asa-0005

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