# CVE-2025-48480

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-48480
- **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, 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.

## Affected Products

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

## References

- [CNA](https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-pfjf-43mp-3gp2)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.32%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 24.3

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-10._