Is CVE-2025-48480 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2025-48480 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2025-48480?

CVE-2025-48480 has a CVSS v3 base score of 2.7 (LOW).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-48480?

CVE-2025-48480 has an EPSS score of 0.27% (19th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2025-48480?

Upgrade freescout to 1.8.180 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2025-48480

LOW

2.7

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-841

How to fix

Remediation Available

freescoutNVD

Affected:< 1.8.180Fixed in:1.8.180CVE-2025-48480derived 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

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityLow

AvailabilityNone

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.27%probability of exploitation in 30 days

19thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 19% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

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 2025-06-04.