The emulator has been continuously updating since the first launch in 2019 for safety and security. The threat CVE entry shows, on the Forum, was flagged as “Solved”.īluestacks is basically an Android emulator for PC and Mac computer to run and test the Android apps and Games on computes. Meanwhile, they tried to fix it by releasing the Bluestacks 4.31.55, which was also the second release for MAC pc as well. The Bluestacks bug was first detected in 2018 that allowed a threat actor to bypass the restrictions and access the resources on the machine and network.īluestacks3.0 Windows version was affected by the bug. CVE-2018-0701: Gain unauthorized access on the same network segment.The vulnerability seems to have found its fix in the latest version of BlueStacks. The threat was known as “local arbitrary file read through a system service call” and was executed with admin privilege with the emulator itself.ĬVE-2019-14220 affected versions 4.110 and 4.120 of BlueStacks. In the year 2019, a bug was reported by the NVD(National Vulnerability Databases) CVE-2019-14220 that could be used to gain the read-access to the files and data. CVE-2019-14220: Read unauthorized file by setting file name as a parameter in system service call.

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