CVE-2025-9136 – RetroArch Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-9136 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 19, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added CWE CWE-125
    Added Reference https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/17555
    Added Reference https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/17555#issuecomment-2651403849
    Added Reference https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/17555/commits/6446f045ec7fc6a5cac3e8ec35a2f0a5889c88e8
    Added Reference https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/releases/tag/v1.21.0
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.320516
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.320516
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.617657
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