{"id":"CVE-2025-48480","aliases":["EUVD-2025-16452","GHSA-pfjf-43mp-3gp2"],"status":"published","title":"FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors","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.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":7,"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","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.0033,"percentile":0.26436,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-841"],"published":"2025-05-30T04:34:34Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:56Z","products":[{"vendor":"freescout","product":"freescout"},{"vendor":"freescout-help-desk","product":"freescout"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-pfjf-43mp-3gp2","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Exploit","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/48xxx/CVE-2025-48480.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48480","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-48480","title":"FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors","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.","status":"published","published":"2025-05-30T04:34:34.04Z","modified":"2025-05-30T22:01:13.652Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7,"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","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-841"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:41.41198Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-16452","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.","status":"published","published":"2025-05-30T04:34:34Z","modified":"2025-05-30T22:01:13Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7,"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","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:32:33.750801Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-48480","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.","status":"published","published":"2025-05-30T05:15:22.8Z","modified":"2026-06-17T09:29:41.457Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7,"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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":2.7,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","level":"low","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-841"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:11:10.143444Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2025-48480","title":"FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors","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.","status":"published","published":"2025-05-30T04:34:34.04Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:56.342050088Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7,"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","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-841"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:50.037003Z"}]}}