CVE-2026-103984: FreeScout: Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-40570: load_customer_info exposes cross-visibility customer PII
FreeScout is a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to 1.8.231, when limitusercustomervisibility is enabled, the loadcustomerinfo AJAX action performs a global lookup using an attacker-controlled customer email and checks only whether the agent can access a separately supplied mailbox. A non-admin agent can name an accessible mailbox and retrieve an unrelated customer's rendered profile without invoking CustomerPolicy::view(). The response can expose names, email addresses, phone numbers, company and job information, postal addresses, social profiles, websites, and confidential internal agent notes. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.231.
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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FreeScoutto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 1.8.231