Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 29, 2025· Updated May 29, 2025
FreeScout Has Insufficient Protection Against CRLF-injection
CVE-2025-48388
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.
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References
2- github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/eab97711027fff4bce90ccd2e189cbc184fa0370mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-c76f-wggm-grcqmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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