CVE-2025-48480

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.

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/security/advisories/GHSA-pfjf-43mp-3gp2