Cog-Creators Red-DiscordBot up to 3.5.9 can_manage_channel authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Cog-Creators Red-DiscordBot up to 3.5.9. This affects the function can_manage_channel. Such manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-39905. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cog-Creators Red-DiscordBot up to 3.5.9. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function can_manage_channel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-863. The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Red is a fully modular Discord bot. Due to a bug in Red's Core API, 3rd-party cogs using the `@commands.can_manage_channel()` command permission check without additional permission controls may authorize a user to run a command even when that user doesn't have permissions to manage a channel. None of the core commands or core cogs are affected. The maintainers of the project are not aware of any _public_ 3rd-party cog utilizing this API at the time of writing this advisory. The problem was patched and released in version 3.5.10.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-39905 since 07/02/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 3.5.10 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 0b0b23b9717b40ed4f8715720b199417c8e89750 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Vendor

• Cog-Creators

Name

• Red-DiscordBot

Version

• 3.5.0
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.3
• 3.5.4
• 3.5.5
• 3.5.6
• 3.5.7
• 3.5.8
• 3.5.9

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot/

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