CVE-2020-15278CWE-863

Unauthorized privilege escalation in Mod module

High · published October 28, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
65.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Red Discord Bot before version 3.4.1 has an unauthorized privilege escalation exploit 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 is possible to perform destructive actions within the guild the user has high privileges in. This exploit has been fixed in version 3.4.1. As a workaround, 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01087 · 65.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2020-10-28T16:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 OCT 16:35Z
    Unauthorized privilege escalation in Mod module
    cvelistv5