CVE-2025-12418: Revenera Installshield

Medium severity, CVSS 5.6. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Revenera Installshield: from 2023.R1, up to and including 2023.R2; from 2024.R1, up to and including 2024.R2

Published 2025-11-07. Last modified 2026-10-07.