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CVE-2016-4288

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-275

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in BlueStacks App Player. The BlueStacks App Player installer creates a registry key with weak permissions that allows users to execute arbitrary programs with SYSTEM privileges.

Affected products

• BlueStacks: 2.1.3.5650

References

• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0124/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92426
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0124/

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