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.
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:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.32%
- CWE
- CWE-841
- Published
- 2025-05-30
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- freescout-help-desk freescout
Weakness type
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