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Remote Code Execution (RCE) Exploit on Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

High
NeuroAssassin published GHSA-hm45-mgqm-gjm4 Dec 8, 2020

Package

pip red-dashboard (pip)

Affected versions

<= 0.1.6a

Patched versions

0.1.7a

Description

Impact

A RCE exploit has been discovered in the Red Discord Bot - Dashboard Webserver: 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.

Patches

This high severity exploit has been fixed on version 0.1.7a.

Workarounds

There are no workarounds, bot owners must upgrade their relevant packages (Dashboard module and Dashboard webserver) in order to patch this issue

References

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Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2020-26249

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits