Vulnerability · Published May 30, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-48478FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors

High 7.0

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 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)7.0High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.3% 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, 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.

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:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

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