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

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 8, 2020 in Cog-Creators/Red-Dashboard • Updated Jan 9, 2023

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

  • 99d88b8
  • a6b9785

For more information

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References

@NeuroAssassin NeuroAssassin published to Cog-Creators/Red-Dashboard Dec 8, 2020
Reviewed Dec 8, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 8, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High
7.7
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-26249

GHSA ID

GHSA-hm45-mgqm-gjm4

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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