# CVE-2025-48478

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-48478
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 7 (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)
- **CWE:** CWE-841
- **Published:** May 30, 2025
- **Last Modified:** Mar 13, 2026

## 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

- freescout-help-desk — freescout (< 1.8.180)

## References

- [CNA](https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-fqjj-79j2-8qx6)
- [CNA](https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/d2048f59a899dbcfc9a71bb98549ead81cdb62a5)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.45%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 37.8

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-11._