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CVE-2024-14012 (GCVE-0-2024-14012)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-29 15:30 – Updated: 2025-10-29 17:40
VLAI
Title
Potential Privilege Escalation in Revenera InstallShield 2023 R1
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-29 17:40 UTC
CWE
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Revenera InstallShield Affected: 2023.R1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:revenera:installshield:2023.r1:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*
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