CVE-2021-28927

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-28927

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-28927.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-28927

Published

2021-04-07T15:15:13.623Z

Modified

2026-03-15T22:40:24.742967Z

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

Introduced

5e551dd92b79d8127e66939835ea3c2a140c4078

Last affected

c226bd87f47b3fdec642216fcaf6edc651e30eb4

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.9.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.9.4"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.9.0

v1.9.1

v1.9.2

v1.9.3

v1.9.4

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-28927.json"