Is CVE-2025-48388 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2025-48388 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2025-48388?

CVE-2025-48388 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-48388?

CVE-2025-48388 has an EPSS score of 0.34% (26th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2025-48388?

Upgrade freescout to 1.8.178 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2025-48388

MEDIUM

6.5

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-93 CWE-134

How to fix

Remediation Available

freescoutNVD

Affected:< 1.8.178Fixed in:1.8.178CVE-2025-48388derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredHigh

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.34%probability of exploitation in 30 days

26thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 26% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

github.com

Vendor Advisory1

github.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-07-11.