CVE-2025-48480

Description

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, 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.

Reserved 2025-05-22 | Published 2025-05-30 | Updated 2025-05-30 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-841: Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow

Product status

< 1.8.180
affected

References

github.com/...escout/security/advisories/GHSA-pfjf-43mp-3gp2

cve.org (CVE-2025-48480)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-48480)

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