CVE-2025-0459: Libretro Retroarch

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Libretro Retroarch: version 1.19.0 only; version 1.19.1 only

Published 2025-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.