CVE-2021-28927

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28927
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-28927.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-28927
Published
2021-04-07T15:15:13.623Z
Modified
2025-11-14T11:36:54.608995Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The text-to-speech engine in libretro RetroArch for Windows 1.9.0 passes unsanitized input to PowerShell through platformwin32.c via the accessibilityspeak_windows function, which allows attackers who have write access on filesystems that are used by RetroArch to execute code via command injection using specially a crafted file and directory names.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libretro/retroarch

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libretro/retroarch
Events

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.9.0
v1.9.1
v1.9.2
v1.9.3
v1.9.4