Description
FreeScout is a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to 1.8.225, the administrative tools.php maintenance endpoint is reachable without an appropriate authentication or access-control boundary. Response differences for attacker-controlled path values disclose whether arbitrary directories and files exist on the server. The same endpoint validates application-key and database-password candidates without rate limiting, per-session throttling, or a CAPTCHA, allowing unrestricted guessing attempts against application secrets. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.225.
Published: 2026-11-06
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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Description FreeScout is a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to 1.8.225, the administrative tools.php maintenance endpoint is reachable without an appropriate authentication or access-control boundary. Response differences for attacker-controlled path values disclose whether arbitrary directories and files exist on the server. The same endpoint validates application-key and database-password candidates without rate limiting, per-session throttling, or a CAPTCHA, allowing unrestricted guessing attempts against application secrets. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.225.
Title FreeScout: Administrative tools.php endpoint is accessible to low-privileged users, enabling filesystem enumeration and unthrottled brute-force of application secrets
Weaknesses CWE-287
CWE-307
CWE-538
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-06T17:04:28.448Z

Reserved: 2026-07-14T21:10:50.031Z

Link: CVE-2026-62850

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-06T17:18:33.157

Modified: 2026-11-06T17:18:33.157

Link: CVE-2026-62850

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-287

    Improper Authentication

  • CWE-307

    Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

  • CWE-538

    Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory