CVE-2025-12418 | THREATINT

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-28 | Published 2025-11-07 | Updated 2025-11-07 | Assigner flexera

MEDIUM: 5.6CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H

Problem types

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

Product status

Default status

unaffected

2023.R1 (semver)

affected

2024.R1 (semver)

affected

2025.R1 (custom) before InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch

affected

References

community.revenera.com/...hield-Suite-Uninstallation-Process

cve.org (CVE-2025-12418)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12418)

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