Updated Date: 18 September 2019
Summary
Description
CVE-2019-14220.
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
- CVE-2019-14220: BlueStacks fails to restrict access permissions.
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14220
Remediation
Windows & MacOS
Download the product from http://www.bluestacks.com/download.html.
Install the updated Bluestacks Player using the usual update path.
Workaround
- Download the latest version of BlueStacks from website .
Acknowledgements
Maciej Miszczyk from Seqred.pl
CVSS Scoring
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N