CVE-2023-29080

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

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

Configurations

No configuration.

History

15 Apr 2026, 00:35

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Summary		(es) Vulnerabilidad potencial de escalada de privilegios en las versiones 2022 R2 y 2021 R2 de Revenera InstallShield debido a la adición de una acción personalizada InstallScript a un proyecto MSI básico o MSI InstallScript que extrae algunos archivos binarios a una carpeta escribible predefinida durante el tiempo de instalación. La cuenta de usuario estándar tiene acceso de escritura a estos archivos y carpetas, por lo que reemplazarlos durante el tiempo de instalación puede provocar una vulnerabilidad de secuestro de DLL.

30 Jan 2025, 18:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-01-30 18:15

Updated : 2026-04-15 00:35

NVD link : CVE-2023-29080

Mitre link : CVE-2023-29080

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-29080

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-552

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

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