CVE-2023-29080

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ReveneraInstallShield2022 R2 < 2022 R2 (28.0.0.763)affected
ReveneraInstallShield2021 R2 < 2021 R2 (27.0.0.126)affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-552: CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References