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CVE-2025-48480
LOW · CVSS 2.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-05-30T05:15:22.800 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:29:41.457

Summary

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.

Affected products

freescout — freescout

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References

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