Vulnerability · Published Nov 7, 2025 · Assigned by flexera
CVE-2025-12418Potential Denial of Service in Supported Versions of Revenera InstallShield
Medium 5.6
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in InstallShield from Revenera. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 5% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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 (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Revenera | InstallShield | 2023.R1 – through 2023.R22024.R1 – through 2024.R22025.R1 – before InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch |
Weakness: CWE-59 · Vector: 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