CVE-2025-48388

MEDIUM

6.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredHIGH

User InteractionNONE

Published5/29/2025

Last Modified7/11/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

freescout:freescout

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-93CWE-134

References

https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/eab97711027fff4bce90ccd2e189cbc184fa0370(security-advisories@github.com)

https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-c76f-wggm-grcq(security-advisories@github.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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