Vulnerability · Published May 30, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-48479FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors
High 8.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in freescout from freescout-help-desk. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 26% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 4.0)8.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 73.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.180, the laravel-translation-manager package does not correctly validate user input, enabling the deletion of any directory, given sufficient access rights. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| freescout-help-desk | freescout | < 1.8.180 |
Weakness: CWE-841 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N