CVE-2025-48478 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-48478

FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

freescout-help-desk

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Affected Software

freescout
Vulnerable Versions:
< 1.8.180

Timeline

Official Publish: May 30th, 2025
Last Modified: May 30th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-841

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.