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Intel® Quartus Family of Tools Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
| Intel ID: |
INTEL-SA-00151 |
|---|---|
| Product family: |
Intel® Quartus family of tools |
| Impact of vulnerability: |
Escalation of Privilege |
| Severity rating: |
Moderate |
| Original release: |
07/10/2018 |
| Last revised: |
07/10/2018 |
Summary:
Unquoted service paths in the Intel® Quartus family of tools allows a local attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code.
Description:
The Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) server is vulnerable to replacement of required executables, which on reboot may be run with elevated privileges.
Affected products:
• Quartus II v11.0 – 15.0 (CVE-2018-3683)
• Quartus Prime v15.1 – 18.0 (CVE-2018-3684)
• Intel Quartus II Programmer and Tools v11.0 – 15.0 (CVE-2018-3687)
• Intel Quartus Prime Programmer and Tools v15.1 – 18.0 (CVE-2018-3688)
Recommendations:
Intel recommends for the affected products listed in this report, to run the patch found here: https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/knowledge-base/tools/2018/vulnerability-in-jtag-server-potentially-allows-a-local-attacker.html
Or install Quartus Prime release v18.1 or later (when released; check availability here: http://dl.altera.com/), which already includes the update.
Acknowledgements:
Intel would like to thank SaifAllah benMassaoud for reporting this issue and working with us on coordinated disclosure.
CVE Name: CVE-2018-3683, CVE-2018-3684, CVE-2018-3687, CVE-2018-3688
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