CVE-2025-48388
FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.178, the application performs insufficient validation of user-supplied data, which is used as arguments to string formatting functions. As a result, an attacker can pass a string containing special symbols (\r, \n, \t)to the application. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.178.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.38%
- CWE
- CWE-134, CWE-93
- Published
- 2025-05-29
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- freescout-help-desk freescout
Weakness type
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