CVE-2025-48478 HIGH

CVE-2025-48478: FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors

Vendor Freescout-Help-Desk
Product freescout
Weakness CWE-841
Published May 30, 2025
Last update May 30, 2025
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CVSS base score

7.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.180, insufficient input validation during user creation has resulted in a mass assignment vulnerability, allowing an attacker to manipulate all fields of the object, which are enumerated in the $fillable array (the User object), when creating a new user. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 30, 2025 CVE published
May 30, 2025 Record updated