Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-48480

HighPublic PoC

Published: 30 May 2025

Published
30 May 2025
Modified
04 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v4 7.0 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
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.4th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-48480 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 29.4th 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

Vulnerability details

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,…

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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.

CWE(s)
CWE-841NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

freescout
freescout
≤ 1.8.180

Mitigating Controls

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

References