Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Intel Quartus Prime Standard - CVE-2022-21203
Published: February 9, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU60459
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-21203
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in the SafeNet Sentinel driver, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.
Affected software
Intel Quartus Prime Standard
How to mitigate CVE-2022-21203
Install updates from vendor's website.
Intel Quartus Prime Standard - update to 21.1