CVE-2025-48388

FreeScout Has Insufficient Protection Against CRLF-injection

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: May 29, 2025
Updated: May 29, 2025
Reserved: May 19, 2025

Description

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.178, the application performs insufficient validation of user-supplied data, which is used as arguments to string formatting functions. As a result, an attacker can pass a string containing special symbols (\r, \n, \t)to the application. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.178.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.0 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
freescoutfreescout-help-desk	< 1.8.178Affected

References

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