CVE-2025-12418

Potential Denial of Service in Supported Versions of Revenera InstallShield

CVSS 5.6 MEDIUMEPSS 0.1%CWE-59

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.6EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

07 Nov 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

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

Affected products

Revenera · InstallShield

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References

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