DSP Builder for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition Software Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Builder software installer for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-43474

Description: Uncontrolled search path for the DSP Builder software installer before version 22.4 for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition 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:

DSP Builder software installer before version 22.4 for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating DSP Builder software to version 22.4 or later for Intel® FPGAs Pro Edition.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software-kit/764047/dsp-builder-for-intel-fpgas-pro-edition-software-version-22-4.html&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.