What is CVE-2020-15172?

CVE-2020-15172 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fluffycogs Project, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 8.7/10. Published 2020-09-15.

How severe is CVE-2020-15172?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.7 out of 10.

Deserialization in Fluffycogs Project

CVE-2020-15172

The Act module for Red Discord Bot before commit 6b9f3b86 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution. With this exploit, Discord users can use specially crafted messages to perform destructive actions and/or access sensitive information. Unloading the Act module with `unload act` can render this exploit inaccessible.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.018 (77.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.7 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Fluffycogs_project Fluffycogs
Zephyrkul Fluffycogs — versions < 2.0.38

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-15172?: CVE-2020-15172 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fluffycogs Project, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 8.7/10. Published 2020-09-15.
How severe is CVE-2020-15172?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.7 out of 10.