Impact

This issue allows users to be able to remotely shutdown the a bot running on pycord, via adding it to a discord server with the application.commands scope but not the bot scope - then executing a command in that server.

Currently, it appears that all public bots that use slash commands are affected

Patches

This issue has been patched in version 2.0.1

Workarounds

There are currently no recommended workarounds - please upgrade to a patched version

References

#1568

For more information

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