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CVE-2023-29080

Published: Jan 30, 2025

Modified: Feb 12, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

Potential privilege escalation vulnerability in Revenera InstallShield versions 2022 R2 and 2021 R2 due to adding InstallScript custom action to a Basic MSI or InstallScript MSI project extracting few binaries to a predefined writable folder during installation time. The standard user account has write access to these files and folders, hence replacing them during installation time can lead to a DLL hijacking vulnerability.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Revenera	InstallShield	affected `2022 R2 - < 2022 R2 (28.0.0.763)` affected `2021 R2 - < 2021 R2 (27.0.0.126)`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://community.revenera.com/s/article/cve-2023-29080-security-patch-for-the-possible-privileged-escalation-scenarios-identified-in-installshield-nbsp

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