cve-2025-54366
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-26 03:35
Modified
2025-07-28 15:00
Summary
FreeScout's deserialization of untrusted data leads to Remote Code Execution
Impacted products
freescout-help-deskfreescout
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