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CVE-2026-40569

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Versions prior to 1.8.213 have a mass assignment vulnerability in the mailbox connection settings endpoints of FreeScout (`connectionIncomingSave()` at `app/Http/Controllers/MailboxesController.php:468` and `connectionOutgoingSave()` at line 398). Both methods pass `$request->all()` directly to `$mailbox->fill()` without any field allowlisting, allowing an authenticated admin to overwrite any of the 32 fields in the Mailbox model's `$
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:87685f7f1ecb3d9ae3a84500d1e8dea03190f4b2de6355aff754631f2423c629
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-284","description":"CWE-284: Improper Access Control","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-915","description":"CWE-915: Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"freescout","vendor":"freescout-help-desk","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"< 1.8.213"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"LOW","baseScore":9,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"HIGH","scope":"CHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-284","description":"CWE-284: Improper Access Control","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-915","description":"CWE-915: Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

Source references

4 source assertions
{"name":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/f45b9105d43b0352c08fcca154e8ae6177c3d860","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/f45b9105d43b0352c08fcca154e8ae6177c3d860"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/releases/tag/1.8.213","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/releases/tag/1.8.213"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"tags":["exploit"],"url":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-hmqm-33wp-858j"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/adp/0/references/0
{"name":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-hmqm-33wp-858j","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-hmqm-33wp-858j"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:c3dd584f4635d4745001e1d8a75f3af8380b5ea845dc14ac19f372989de89f13 · sha256:d48b156fb41cb61a… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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