CVE-2023-29080 (GCVE-0-2023-29080)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-30 17:41
Modified
2025-02-12 17:03
Severity ?
8.5 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Revenera InstallShield Version: 2022 R2   < 2022 R2 (28.0.0.763)
Version: 2021 R2   < 2021 R2 (27.0.0.126)
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