CVE-2025-0459 (GCVE-0-2025-0459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-14 15:31 – Updated: 2025-01-14 16:42
VLAI?
Summary
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in libretro RetroArch up to 1.19.1 on Windows. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library profapi.dll of the component Startup. The manipulation leads to untrusted search path. An attack has to be approached locally. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
https://vuldb.com/?id.291476 vdb-entry
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.291476 signaturepermissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?submit.474011 third-party-advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libretro RetroArch Affected: 1.19.0
Affected: 1.19.1
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Credits
Havook (VulDB User)
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