TI-2025-11394 Aliases CVE-2025-12418 GHSA-frcm-hvx7-5p9q

Potential Denial of Service in Supported Versions of Revenera InstallShield

LOW 24CWE-59Published 2025-11-07 · Updated 2025-11-13

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: Active
Attack complexity: Low
Attack requirements: Present
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-59 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00162 5th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed InstallShield (Revenera): InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Revenera	InstallShield	2023.R1 – 2023.R2; 2024.R1 – 2024.R2; 2025.R1 to before InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch	InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch	Patch available	CNA

InstallShield VendorRevenera Affected 2023.R1 – 2023.R2; 2024.R1 – 2024.R2; 2025.R1 to before InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch Fixed in InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch Patch available CNA

Remediation

Fix · CNA InstallShield (Revenera) Fixed in InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-12418
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-frcm-hvx7-5p9q

References

Other 1

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

TI-2007-05441 The Macrovision InstallShield InstallScript One-Click Install (OCI) ActiveX control 12.0… CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3
TI-2023-13524 Privilege escalation in InstallShield CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
TI-2024-13014 Potential Privilege Escalation in Revenera InstallShield 2023 R1 CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.3
TI-2024-07009 A potential elevated privilege issue has been reported with InstallShield built… CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.3
TI-2023-13525 InstallShield Symlink Vulnerability Affecting Suite Project Setups CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5

Sources

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