What is CVE-2021-29466?

CVE-2021-29466 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Demon1a Discord-Recon, classified under CWE-24. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-04-22.

How severe is CVE-2021-29466?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Demon1a Discord-Recon

CVE-2021-29466

Discord-Recon is a bot for the Discord chat service. In versions of Discord-Recon 0.0.3 and prior, a remote attacker is able to read local files from the server that can disclose important information. As a workaround, a bot maintainer can locate the file `app.py` and add `.replace('..', '')` into the `Path` variable inside of the `recon` function. The vulnerability is patched in version 0.0.4.

Published 2021-04-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Demon1a Discord-Recon — versions <= 0.0.3
Discord Discord-Recon

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

github.com/DEMON1A/Discord-Recon/security/advisories/GHSA-p2pw-8xwf-879g (Third Party Advisory, Mitigation)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-29466?: CVE-2021-29466 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Demon1a Discord-Recon, classified under CWE-24. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-04-22.
How severe is CVE-2021-29466?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.