CVE-2025-48480 Information

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.

Reference

https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-pfjf-43mp-3gp2