Vulnerability · Published May 30, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-48880FreeScout has Race Condition When Deleting Users

Medium 5.1

In plain English

A medium-severity race condition in freescout from freescout-help-desk. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 35% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 64.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.181, when an administrative account is a deleting a user, there is the the possibility of a race condition occurring. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.181.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
freescout-help-desk freescout < 1.8.181

Weakness: CWE-362 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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