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CVE-2020-26249

medium

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.

References

https://pypi.org/project/Red-Dashboard

https://github.com/Cog-Creators/Red-Dashboard/security/advisories/GHSA-hm45-mgqm-gjm4

https://github.com/Cog-Creators/Red-Dashboard/commit/a6b9785338003ec87fb75305e7d1cc2d40c7ab91

https://github.com/Cog-Creators/Red-Dashboard/commit/99d88b840674674166ce005b784ae8e31e955ab1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-12-09

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: 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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00414