PSIRT Advisory – INTEL-SA-00349 - Intel® MAX® 10 FPGA Advisory Intel® MAX® 10 FPGA Advisory Corporate Pages Security {"description":"Intel\u00ae MAX\u00ae 10 FPGA Advisory. Altera\u2019s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) advisories provide important disclosures, mitigations, and security updates.","title":"PSIRT Advisory \u2013 INTEL-SA-00349"} Altera Security Advisory: INTEL-SA-00349 Advisory Category: Hardware Impact of vulnerability: Information Disclosure Severity rating: Medium Original release: 03/10/2020 Last revised: 05/06/2026 Summary: A potential security vulnerability in Intel® MAX® 10 FPGA may allow information disclosure.Intel is releasing documentation updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2020-0574 Description: Improper configuration in block design for Intel® MAX® 10 FPGA all versions may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and information disclosure via physical access. CVSS Base Score: 6.1 Medium CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Affected products: MAX® 10 FPGA all versions. Recommendations: Intel recommends all users of Intel® Max® 10 FPGA in a physically insecure environment always enable JTAG Secure Mode, especially if user flash memory (UFM) is not encrypted. Please refer to Page 22 in the Intel® Max® 10 FPGA User Guide to find detailed instructions. The Intel® Max® 10 FPGA User Guide can be found here: https://docs.altera.com/r/docs/683865/current/max-10-fpga-configuration-user-guide/max-10-fpga-configuration-overview Acknowledgements: Intel would like to thank Dr. Sergei Skorobogatov of the Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, for reporting this issue. Revision Date Description 1.0 03/10/2020 Initial Release 1.1 03/17/2020 Updated CVE description 1.2 05/06/2026 Transfer Advisory to Altera. Legal Notices and Disclaimers Altera provides these materials as-is, with no express or implied warranties. All products, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. Altera products and services described may contain design defects or errors known as errata, which may cause the product to deviate from published specifications. Current characterized errata are available on request. Altera products that have met their End of Servicing Updates may no longer receive functional and security updates. Altera technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software, or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at https://www.altera.com. Some results may have been estimated or simulated using internal Altera analysis or architecture simulation or modeling and are provided for informational purposes only. Any differences in your system hardware, software, or configuration may affect your actual performance. © Altera Corporation. Altera, the Altera logo, and other Altera marks are trademarks of Altera Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.