CVE-2020-15140Remote Code Execution in Red Discord Bot
- 8.2HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 32% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Red Discord Bot before version 3.3.11, a RCE exploit has been discovered in the Trivia module: this exploit allows Discord users with specifically crafted usernames to inject code into the Trivia module's leaderboard command. By abusing this exploit, it's possible to perform destructive actions and/or access sensitive information. This critical exploit has been fixed on version 3.3.11.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.2.
Affected products
- affected < 3.3.11
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIRed-DiscordBotGHSA-55j9-849x-26h4 (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://github.com/Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot/security/advisories/GHSA-55j9-849x-26h4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot/pull/4175/commits/9ab536235bafc2b42c3c17d7ce26f1cc64482a81 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0163 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-55j9-849x-26h4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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