Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Intel Quartus Prime Standard and Intel Quartus Prime Pro - CVE-2020-24481

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Intel Quartus Prime Standard and Intel Quartus Prime Pro - CVE-2020-24481

Published: February 15, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU50692
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24481
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.


Affected software

Intel Quartus Prime Standard
Intel Quartus Prime Pro

How to mitigate CVE-2020-24481

Install updates from vendor's website.

Intel Quartus Prime Standard - update to 20.1
Intel Quartus Prime Pro - update to 20.4

External References

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