Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-48388

High

Published: 29 May 2025

Published
29 May 2025
Modified
11 July 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v4 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/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
EPSS Score 0.0026 50.0th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-48388 is a high-severity CRLF Injection (CWE-93) vulnerability in Freescout Freescout. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 50.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.178, the application performs insufficient validation of user-supplied data, which is used as arguments to string formatting functions. As a result, an attacker can pass a string…

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containing special symbols (\r, \n, \t)to the application. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.178.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

freescout
freescout
≤ 1.8.178

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References