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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.6 Medium

CVE-2025-12418

Potential Denial of Service in Supported Versions of Revenera InstallShield

Description

Potential Denial of Service issue in all supported versions of Revenera InstallShield version 2025 R1, 2024 R2, 2023 R2, and prior. When e.g., a local administrator performs an uninstall, a symlink may get followed on removal of a user writeable configuration directory and induce a Denial of Service as a result. The issue is resolved through the hotfixes InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch, InstallShield2024R2-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch, and InstallShield2023R2-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Revenera InstallShield

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2023.R1 to ≤ 2023.R2affected
  • 2024.R1 to ≤ 2024.R2affected
  • 2025.R1 to < InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatchaffected

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