CVE-2025-48480 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-48480

FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors

Vulnerability 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.

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.