Vulnerability details
CVE-2025-48480
freescout-help-desk freescout
FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors
CVSS 4.0
7.0High
Official 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.
CVSS scores
| Score | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0High | 4.0 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (GitHub_M) | 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 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| freescout-help-desk | freescout | < 1.8.180 | CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) |
References and advisories
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Details
- Published
- 2025-05-30
- Last updated
- 2025-05-31
- State
- Published
- Assigner (CNA)
- GitHub_M
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
26.3%
Percentile (among all CVEs)
SSVC assessment (CISA)
- Automatable
- No
- Exploitation
- None
- Technical impact
- Partial
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-841Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow