CVE-2025-12418

Published: Nov 7, 2025

Modified: Nov 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Revenera	InstallShield	affected `2023.R1 - <= 2023.R2` affected `2024.R1 - <= 2024.R2` affected `2025.R1 - < InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

References

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

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CVE-2025-12418

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