CVE-2023-29080CWE-552

Privilege escalation in InstallShield

High · published January 30, 2025

CVSS v4.0
8.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.5 · HIGH
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-552 · Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Published
2025-01-30T17:41Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 JAN 17:41Z
    Privilege escalation in InstallShield
    cvelistv5