What is CVE-2025-48478?

CVE-2025-48478 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freescout, classified under Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-05-30.

How severe is CVE-2025-48478?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Freescout

CVE-2025-48478

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.180, insufficient input validation during user creation has resulted in a mass assignment vulnerability, allowing an attacker to manipulate all fields of the object, which are enumerated in the $fillable array (the User object), when creating a new user. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.

EPSS: 0.004 (32.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Freescout
Freescout-help-desk Freescout — versions < 1.8.180

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-841 — Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-48478?: CVE-2025-48478 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freescout, classified under Improper Enforcement of Behavioral Workflow. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-05-30.
How severe is CVE-2025-48478?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.