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GHSA-mp9m-g7qj-6vqr

Unauthorized privilege escalation in Mod module

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2020-15278

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI Red-DiscordBot < 3.4.1 3.4.1

Details

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### Impact An unauthorized privilege escalation exploit has been discovered in the Mod module: this exploit 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 exploit, it's possible to perform destructive actions within the guild the user has high privileges in. ### Patches This exploit has been fixed on version & ``3.4.1``. ### Workarounds Unloading the Mod module with ``unload mod`` __or__, disabling the ``massban`` command with ``command disable global massban`` can render this exploit not accessible. We still highly recommend updating to ``3.4.1`` to completely patch this issue. ### References * https://github.com/Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot/commit/726bfd38adfdfaef760412a68e01447b470f438b ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot](https://github.com/Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot) * Over on our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/red)

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