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.
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Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:30:00 +0000
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Freescout Helpdesk
Freescout Helpdesk freescout |
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Freescout Helpdesk
Freescout Helpdesk freescout |
Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:15:00 +0000
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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 |
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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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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-11-06T19:15:08Z