FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.214, the Change Customer modal exposes a “Create a new customer” flow via POST /customers/ajax with action=create. Under limited visibility, the endpoint drops unique-email validation. If the supplied email already belongs to a hidden customer, Customer::create() reuses that hidden customer object and fills empty profile fields from attacker-controlled input. Version 1.8.214 fixes the vulnerability.
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Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:15:00 +0000
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| Description | FreeScout is a free self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to version 1.8.214, the Change Customer modal exposes a “Create a new customer” flow via POST /customers/ajax with action=create. Under limited visibility, the endpoint drops unique-email validation. If the supplied email already belongs to a hidden customer, Customer::create() reuses that hidden customer object and fills empty profile fields from attacker-controlled input. Version 1.8.214 fixes the vulnerability. | |
| Title | FreeScout's Customer AJAX Create Modifies Hidden Existing Customer | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-639 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-21T17:39:21.865Z
Reserved: 2026-04-14T14:07:59.641Z
Link: CVE-2026-40590
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-21T17:16:56.803
Modified: 2026-04-21T17:16:56.803
Link: CVE-2026-40590
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