CVE-2025-12418

Potential Denial of Service in Supported Versions of Revenera InstallShield

State: Published
Severity: 5.6 Medium
Published: Nov 7, 2025
Updated: Nov 13, 2025
Reserved: Oct 28, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.6 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H	flexera

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
InstallShieldRevenera	2023.R1 through 2023.R2Affectedfrom InstallShield2023R2-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatchNot affected 2024.R1 through 2024.R2Affectedfrom InstallShield2024R2-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatchNot affected 2025.R1 to before InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatchAffected

References

https://community.revenera.com/s/article/CVE-2025-12418-Potential-Unintended-File-Deletion-Issue-Caused-by-InstallShield-Suite-Uninstallation-Process

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