CVE-2025-48478

May 30, 2025, 4:31 p.m.

7.0
Medium

Description

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Freescout
  • Freescout
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-841
Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow
The product supports a session in which more than one behavior must be performed by an actor, but it does not properly ensure that the actor performs the behaviors in the required sequence.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a freescout freescout / / / / / / / /

References

https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/d2048f59a899dbcfc9a71bb98549ead81cdb62a5
https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-fqjj-79j2-8qx6

Tags

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-841
2025-05-30
CVE-2025-48478

CVSS Score

7.0 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE
  • Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

    • 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: May 30, 2025, 5:15 a.m.
Last Modified: May 30, 2025, 4:31 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security-advisories@github.com

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