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Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-48481

CVE-2025-48481

freescout-help-desk freescout — FreeScout Has Business Logic Errors

EPSS 0.6%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
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CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 47.0.470 × 209.4No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.180, an attacker with an unactivated email invitation containing invite_hash, can exploit this vulnerability to self-activate their account, despite it being blocked or deleted, by leveraging the invitation link from the email to gain initial access to the account. This issue has been patched in version 1.8.180.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
freescout< 1.8.180–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub_M (CNA)6.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

References

refgithub.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-jgj2-x749-5wc7