CVE-2023-29080 — Privilege escalation in InstallShield

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Revenera / InstallShield	affected 2022 R2 before 2022 R2 (28.0.0.763); affected 2021 R2 before 2021 R2 (27.0.0.126)

CWE

CWE-552

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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