Privilege Escalation Affecting red-discordbot package, versions [,3.4.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-REDDISCORDBOT-1023166
  • published28 Oct 2020
  • disclosed27 Oct 2020
  • creditjack1142

Introduced: 27 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15278  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Red-DiscordBot to version 3.4.1 or higher.

Overview

Red-DiscordBot is an A highly customisable Discord bot

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in the Mod module. This vulnerability allows Discord users with a high privilege level within the guild to bypass hierarchy checks when the application is in a specific condition that is beyond that user's control. By abusing this issue, it's possible to perform destructive actions within the guild the user has high privileges in.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1