CVE-2026-40591 PUBLISHED

FreeScout: Improper Authorization in Phone Conversation Creation Enables Cross-Mailbox Hidden Customer Modification

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 14.04.2026 Published: 21.04.2026 Updated: 21.04.2026

FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.214, the phone-conversation creation flow accepts attacker-controlled customer_id, name, to_email, and phone values and resolves the target customer in the backend without enforcing mailbox-scoped customer visibility. As a result, a low-privileged agent who can create a phone conversation in Mailbox A can bind the new Mailbox A phone conversation to a hidden customer from Mailbox B and add a new alias email to that hidden customer record by supplying to_email. Version 1.8.214 fixes the vulnerability.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Product Status

Vendor freescout-help-desk
Product freescout
Versions
  • Version < 1.8.214 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE