CVE-2022-21669 (GCVE-0-2022-21669)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-11 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-23 19:13
VLAI
Title
Bot token exposed in main.py
Summary
PuddingBot is a group management bot. In version 0.0.6-b933652 and prior, the bot token is publicly exposed in main.py, making it accessible to malicious actors. The bot token has been revoked and new version is already running on the server. As of time of publication, the maintainers are planning to update code to reflect this change at a later date.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PuddingBot pudding-bot Affected: <= 0.0.6-b933652
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