libretro CVE Vulnerabilities & Metrics

Focus on libretro vulnerabilities and metrics.

Last updated: 25 Nov 2025, 23:25 UTC

About libretro Security Exposure

This page consolidates all known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) associated with libretro. We track both calendar-based metrics (using fixed periods) and rolling metrics (using gliding windows) to give you a comprehensive view of security trends and risk evolution. Use these insights to assess risk and plan your patching strategy.

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Global CVE Overview

Total libretro CVEs: 2
Earliest CVE date: 07 Apr 2021, 15:15 UTC
Latest CVE date: 19 Aug 2025, 12:15 UTC

Latest CVE reference: CVE-2025-9136

Rolling Stats

30-day Count (Rolling): 0
365-day Count (Rolling): 1

Calendar-based Variation

Calendar-based Variation compares a fixed calendar period (e.g., this month versus the same month last year), while Rolling Growth Rate uses a continuous window (e.g., last 30 days versus the previous 30 days) to capture trends independent of calendar boundaries.

Variations & Growth

Month Variation (Calendar): 0%
Year Variation (Calendar): 0%

Month Growth Rate (30-day Rolling): 0.0%
Year Growth Rate (365-day Rolling): 0.0%

Monthly CVE Trends (current vs previous Year)

Annual CVE Trends (Last 20 Years)

Critical libretro CVEs (CVSS ≥ 9) Over 20 Years

CVSS Stats

Average CVSS: 4.45

Max CVSS: 4.6

Critical CVEs (≥9): 0

CVSS Range vs. Count

Range Count
0.0-3.9 0
4.0-6.9 2
7.0-8.9 0
9.0-10.0 0

CVSS Distribution Chart

Top 5 Highest CVSS libretro CVEs

These are the five CVEs with the highest CVSS scores for libretro, sorted by severity first and recency.

All CVEs for libretro

CVE-2025-9136 libretro vulnerability CVSS: 4.3 19 Aug 2025, 12:15 UTC

A flaw has been found in libretro RetroArch 1.18.0/1.19.0/1.20.0. This affects the function filestream_vscanf of the file libretro-common/streams/file_stream.c. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be launched locally. Upgrading to version 1.21.0 mitigates this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

CVE-2021-28927 libretro vulnerability CVSS: 4.6 07 Apr 2021, 15:15 UTC

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.