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CVE-2025-48480: FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors
- Severity: low (CVSS 2.7 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2025-05-30 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-841
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.
Affected products
- freescout-help-desk freescout: before 1.8.180 — fixed in 1.8.180
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: freescout-help-desk freescout 1.8.180. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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