CVE-2025-48478
Published: 30 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-48478 is a high-severity Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow (CWE-841) vulnerability in Freescout Freescout. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 31.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-16454
Vulnerability details
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…
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in the $fillable array (the User object), when creating a new user. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.