# CVE-2024-14012: Potential Privilege Escalation in Revenera InstallShield 2023 R1

> Local attackers can escalate privileges by exploiting insecure DLL loading in InstallShield when a renamed Setup.exe is executed.

- **Severity:** High 7.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Oct 2025
- **Updated:** 29 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2frg-67w9-883j

## What is CVE-2024-14012?

CVE-2024-14012 is a high-severity vulnerability in Revenera InstallShield, published on 29 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Potential privilege escalation issue in Revenera InstallShield version 2023 R1 running a renamed Setup.exe on Windows. When a local administrator executes a renamed Setup.exe, the MPR.dll may get loaded from an insecure location and can result in a privilege escalation. The issue has been fixed in versions 2023 R2 and later.

Weakness: CWE-426 (Untrusted Search Path)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-14012?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-14012?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-14012 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-14012 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-14012 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-14012 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-14012 is a high-severity vulnerability in Revenera InstallShield, published on 29 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-14012 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Revenera InstallShield. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-14012/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-14012/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-14012
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-14012
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-14012

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-14012/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.