🛡️ CVE-2025-48480 — freescout

🟢 CVSS 2.7 — Low ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-841 NVD
2.7
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2025-48480 is recorded against 1 package.

  • freescout (fixed in 1.8.180)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 May 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-841
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-05-30
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
freescout — 1.8.180

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