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CVE-2016-4288

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4288 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in BlueStacks App Player, where the installer creates a registry key with weak permissions. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary programs with SYSTEM privileges. With a CVSS score of 8.4 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant media coverage, though it has received minimal community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.3.5650CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bluestacks:bluestacks:2.1.3.5650:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.4HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 3,237 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

talosintelligence.com / reports/TALOS-2016-0124
ExploitMitigationTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/92426
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry