{"id":"CVE-2026-62850","aliases":["EUVD-2026-118375","GHSA-w2p9-3666-vw9j"],"status":"published","title":"FreeScout: Administrative tools.php endpoint is accessible to low-privileged users, enabling filesystem enumeration and unthrottled brute-force of application secrets","description":"FreeScout is a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to 1.8.225, the administrative tools.php maintenance endpoint is reachable without an appropriate authentication or access-control boundary. Response differences for attacker-controlled path values disclose whether arbitrary directories and files exist on the server. The same endpoint validates application-key and database-password candidates without rate limiting, per-session throttling, or a CAPTCHA, allowing unrestricted guessing attempts against application secrets. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.225.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00272,"percentile":0.19685,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-287","CWE-307","CWE-538"],"published":"2026-11-06T17:04:28Z","modified":"2026-11-07T02:48:39Z","products":[{"vendor":"freescout-help-desk","product":"freescout"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-w2p9-3666-vw9j","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/8bb0594e95eab6661b4372e94ac02f62a6c3cb28","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/releases/tag/1.8.225","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/62xxx/CVE-2026-62850.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62850","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-62850","title":"FreeScout: Administrative tools.php endpoint is accessible to low-privileged users, enabling filesystem enumeration and unthrottled brute-force of application secrets","description":"FreeScout is a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to 1.8.225, the administrative tools.php maintenance endpoint is reachable without an appropriate authentication or access-control boundary. Response differences for attacker-controlled path values disclose whether arbitrary directories and files exist on the server. The same endpoint validates application-key and database-password candidates without rate limiting, per-session throttling, or a CAPTCHA, allowing unrestricted guessing attempts against application secrets. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.225.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-06T17:04:28.448Z","modified":"2026-11-06T17:04:28.448Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-287","CWE-307","CWE-538"],"updated_at":"2026-11-06T18:59:08.885567Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-118375","description":"FreeScout is a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. 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Prior to 1.8.225, the administrative tools.php maintenance endpoint is reachable without an appropriate authentication or access-control boundary. Response differences for attacker-controlled path values disclose whether arbitrary directories and files exist on the server. The same endpoint validates application-key and database-password candidates without rate limiting, per-session throttling, or a CAPTCHA, allowing unrestricted guessing attempts against application secrets. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.225.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-06T17:18:33.157Z","modified":"2026-11-06T17:18:33.157Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-287","CWE-307","CWE-538"],"updated_at":"2026-11-06T20:01:16.993748Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-62850","title":"FreeScout: Administrative tools.php endpoint is accessible to low-privileged users, enabling filesystem enumeration and unthrottled brute-force of application secrets","description":"FreeScout is a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to 1.8.225, the administrative tools.php maintenance endpoint is reachable without an appropriate authentication or access-control boundary. Response differences for attacker-controlled path values disclose whether arbitrary directories and files exist on the server. The same endpoint validates application-key and database-password candidates without rate limiting, per-session throttling, or a CAPTCHA, allowing unrestricted guessing attempts against application secrets. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.225.","status":"published","published":"2026-11-06T17:04:28.448Z","modified":"2026-11-08T02:47:42.654976973Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-287","CWE-307","CWE-538"],"updated_at":"2026-11-08T03:29:52.421856Z"}]}}