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CWE
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Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2016-2542

First published: Wed Feb 24 2016(Updated: )

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Flexera InstallShield through 2015 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of a setup-launcher executable file.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Flexera InstallShield<2015
Flexera InstallShield=2015
Flexera InstallShield=2015-sp1
AVEVA Edge 2020 R2 SP1
AVEVA Edge 2020 R2 SP1 w/ HF 2020.2.00.40
AVEVA Edge 2020 R2 and all prior versions (formerly known as InduSoft Web Studio)
Flexera InstallShield through 2015 SP1
Flexera InstallShield is integrated into many products sold by other companies

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