CVE-2020-26249
Remote Code Execution (RCE) Exploit on Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
Description
Red Discord Bot Dashboard is an easy-to-use interactive web dashboard to control your Redbot. In Red Discord Bot before version 0.1.7a an RCE exploit has been discovered. This exploit allows Discord users with specially crafted Server names and Usernames/Nicknames to inject code into the webserver front-end code. By abusing this exploit, it's possible to perform destructive actions and/or access sensitive information. This high severity exploit has been fixed on version 0.1.7a. There are no workarounds, bot owners must upgrade their relevant packages (Dashboard module and Dashboard webserver) in order to patch this issue.
How to fix CVE-2020-26249
To remediate CVE-2020-26249, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.1.7a or later
- —upgrade to a6b9785338003ec87fb75305e7d1cc2d40c7ab91 or later
Is CVE-2020-26249 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.1.7a
- from 0, < a6b9785338003ec87fb75305e7d1cc2d40c7ab91, < 99d88b840674674166ce005b784ae8e31e955ab1 | from 0, < 0.1.7a
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |