{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12418 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12418 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-12418 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Revenera InstallShield, published on 7 Nov 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-12418 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-12418 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Revenera InstallShield, published on 7 Nov 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12418 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Revenera InstallShield. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12418/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12418/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-12418","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12418/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-12418","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-frcm-hvx7-5p9q"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"InstallShield installer","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local administrator uninstalling Revenera InstallShield may trigger a denial of service via symlink following in a user-writable directory.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"flexera","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":5.6,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-59","name":"Improper Link Resolution Before File Access"}],"description":"Potential Denial of Service issue in all supported versions of Revenera InstallShield version 2025 R1, 2024 R2, 2023 R2, and prior. When e.g., a local administrator performs an uninstall, a symlink may get followed on removal of a user writeable configuration directory and induce a Denial of Service as a result. The issue is resolved through the hotfixes InstallShield2025R1-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch, InstallShield2024R2-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch, and InstallShield2023R2-CVE-2025-12418-SecurityPatch.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Potential Denial of Service in Supported Versions of Revenera InstallShield","id":"CVE-2025-12418","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Account takeover on OAuth/OpenID-enabled servers","id":"CVE-2025-12419"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in SurveyFunnel – Survey Plugin for WordPress","id":"CVE-2025-12417"},"products":["InstallShield"],"published":"2025-11-07","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-11-13","vendors":["Revenera"]},"summary":"A local administrator uninstalling Revenera InstallShield may trigger a denial of service via symlink following in a user-writable directory.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12418/"}