CVE-2025-48478

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.

Score

CVSS 4.0 7.0 High

Status

Analyzed - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2025-05-30

Last modified

2025-05-30

Weaknesses

CWE-841

Affected products

• Freescout (Freescout)
• Freescout (Freescout-help-desk)

References

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