CVE-2025-48480

FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: May 30, 2025
Updated: May 30, 2025
Reserved: May 22, 2025

Description

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.180, an authorized user with the administrator role or with the privilege User::PERM_EDIT_USERS can create a user, specifying the path to the user's avatar ../.htaccess during creation, and then delete the user's avatar, resulting in the deletion of the file .htaccess in the folder /storage/app/public. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.

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:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-841 Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
freescoutfreescout-help-desk	< 1.8.180Affected

References

https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-pfjf-43mp-3gp2

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