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CVE-2020-15278

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-15278 describes an unauthorized privilege escalation vulnerability in Red Discord Bot versions prior to 3.4.1, specifically within its Mod module. This flaw allows high-privileged Discord users to bypass hierarchy checks under certain conditions, enabling them to perform destructive actions within a guild. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though with high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cogboard:red_discord_bot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.7HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0109 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 1,162 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: red-discordbotFixed in: 3.4.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-mp9m-g7qj-6vqrmedium

Unauthorized privilege escalation in Mod module

Oct 27, 2020

References

github.com / Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot/commit/726bfd38adfdfaef760412a68e01447b470f438b
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot/releases/tag/3.4.1
Third Party Advisory
github.com / Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot/security/advisories/GHSA-mp9m-g7qj-6vqr
Third Party Advisory