CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-14220

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-09-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-09-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

An issue was discovered in BlueStacks 4.110 and below on macOS and on 4.120 and below on Windows. BlueStacks employs Android running in a virtual machine (VM) to enable Android apps to run on Windows or MacOS. Bug is in a local arbitrary file read through a system service call. The impacted method runs with System admin privilege and if given the file name as parameter returns you the content of file. A malicious app using the affected method can then read the content of any system file which it is not authorized to read

Affected configurations

• bluestacks bluestacks (<= 4.120) • bluestacks bluestacks (<= 4.110)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References