Intel® Quartus® Prime Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in Intel® Quartus® Prime may allow information disclosure.** **Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2020-24454

Description: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in subsystem for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition before version 20.3 and Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition before version 20.2 may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via network access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.5 Medium

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

Affected Products:

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro before version 20.3.

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard before version 20.1 Update1.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro to 20.3 or later and Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard to 20.1 Update1 or later.

Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro updates are available for download at this location: <https://fpgasoftware.intel.com/?edition=pro&gt;

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard updates are available for download at these locations:

<http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acs/20.1std/0.06std/quartus-20.1std-0.06std-linux.run&gt;

<http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acs/20.1std/0.06std/quartus-20.1std-0.06std-windows.exe&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Oussama Sahnoun 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.