CVE-2016-4288: Bluestacks

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Bluestacks: version 2.1.3.5650 only

Published 2017-01-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.