CVE-2026-4869 PUBLISHED

Potential Privilege Escalation in InstallShield

Assigner: flexera
Reserved: 25.03.2026 Published: 13.10.2026 Updated: 13.10.2026

A potential privilege escalation issue was identified in InstallShield version 2025 R2 and earlier when running compressed Basic MSI setup with Prerequisites from an insecure location. If a local administrator launches a compressed Setup.exe with Prerequisites from an unsecured location, the Prerequisite installers also might load from an unsecured location, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 5.4

Product Status

Vendor Flexera
Product InstallShield
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2025 R2 (incl.)

Credits

  • Sandeep Kumar Singh, AMD finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-38 Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths