CVE-2025-48388

Description

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

Reserved 2025-05-19 | Published 2025-05-29 | Updated 2025-05-29 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-134: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

CWE-93: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

Product status

< 1.8.178
affected

References

github.com/...escout/security/advisories/GHSA-c76f-wggm-grcq

github.com/...ommit/eab97711027fff4bce90ccd2e189cbc184fa0370

cve.org (CVE-2025-48388)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-48388)

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