What is GHSA-7585-2mwm-5jvf?

GHSA-7585-2mwm-5jvf is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. The text-to-speech engine in libretro RetroArch for Windows 0.11 passes unsanitized input to...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-7585-2mwm-5jvf cover?

GHSA-7585-2mwm-5jvf covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-28927. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-7585-2mwm-5jvf?

GHSA-7585-2mwm-5jvf has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-7585-2mwm-5jvfHighCVSS 7.8

The text-to-speech engine in libretro RetroArch for Windows 0.11 passes unsanitized input to...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 24, 2022

Last Modified

July 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-28927 →

📋 Description

The text-to-speech engine in libretro RetroArch for Windows 0.11 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.

🔗 References (6)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28927
https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/blob/d3dc3ee989ec6a4903c689907ffc47027f71f776/frontend/drivers/platform_win32.c
https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/retroarch-for-windows-version-1.9.0
http://libretro.com
http://retroarch.com
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7585-2mwm-5jvf