Intel® Quartus® Advisory

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard Editions may allow escalation of privilege, denial of service, or information disclosure. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-21203

Description: Improper permissions in the SafeNet Sentinel driver for Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition before version 21.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.8 High

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

CVEID: CVE-2021-44454

Description: Improper input validation in a third-party component for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition before version 21.3 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.3 High

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

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CVEID: CVE-2022-21220

Description: Improper restriction of XML external entity for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition before version 21.3 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****

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CVEID: CVE-2022-21204

Description: Improper permissions for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition before version 21.3 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****

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CVEID: CVE-2022-21174

Description: Improper access control in a third-party component of Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition before version 21.3 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****

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CVEID: CVE-2022-21205

Description: Improper restriction of XML external entity reference in DSP Builder Pro for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition before version 21.3 may allow an 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 Edition before version 21.3.

Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition before version 21.1.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition to version 21.3 or later.

Intel recommends updating Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition to version 21.1 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location: <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/programmable/quartus-prime/download.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

These issues were found externally. Intel would like to thank Marius Gabriel Mihai (CVE-2022-21204 and CVE-2022-21174) for reporting these issues.

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.