{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-53596 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-53596 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-53596 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in freescout-help-desk freescout, published on 20 Jul 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-53596 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-53596 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in freescout-help-desk freescout, published on 20 Jul 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-53596 exists.\n\nAffected product: freescout-help-desk freescout. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53596/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-53596","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53596/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-53596","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-ph4f-2jhx-q76w"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Help desk application","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can flood the file upload endpoint to cause database overload and denial of service for all users.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-770","name":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling"},{"id":"CWE-400","name":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption"}],"description":"FreeScout is a free help desk and shared inbox built with PHP's Laravel framework. Prior to version 1.8.224, the FreeScout helpdesk application does not enforce rate limiting on the file upload endpoint. Any user can flood the server with upload requests, leading to database overload and potential denial of service for all users. Version 1.8.224 contains a fix.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":false,"headline":"FreeScout has unrestricted file upload without rate limiting that leads to resource exhaustion (DoS)","id":"CVE-2026-53596","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Prompty: Arbitrary code execution via JavaScript frontmatter in TypeScript loader","id":"CVE-2026-53597"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"FreeScout vulnerable to anonymous account takeover via /user-setup empty invite_hash on MySQL","id":"CVE-2026-53595"},"products":["freescout"],"published":"2026-07-20","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-07-21","vendors":["freescout-help-desk"]},"summary":"Attackers can flood the file upload endpoint to cause database overload and denial of service for all users.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53596/"}