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CVE-2021-28927

Published: Apr 7, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The text-to-speech engine in libretro RetroArch for Windows 1.9.0 passes unsanitized input to PowerShell through platform_win32.c via the accessibility_speak_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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://libretro.com

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http://retroarch.com

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https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/d3dc3ee989ec6a4903c689907ffc47027f71f776/frontend/drivers/platform_win32.c

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https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/retroarch-for-windows-version-1.9.0

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