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Sangoma FreePBX Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2025-57819 · Sangoma FreePBX · Published 2025-08-28

How bad would it be?

10.0 out of 10

CVSS rates it critical: about as damaging as flaws get.

How likely is it to be used?

95%

Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, among the top 1% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).

Is it already being used?

Yes

CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 406 days ago (2025-09-19).

What CISA says to do

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Sangoma FreePBX contains an authentication bypass vulnerability due to insufficiently sanitized user-supplied data allows unauthenticated access to FreePBX Administrator leading to arbitrary database manipulation and remote code execution.

What the flaw is

FreePBX is an open-source web-based graphical user interface. FreePBX 15, 16, and 17 endpoints are vulnerable due to insufficiently sanitized user-supplied data allowing unauthenticated access to FreePBX Administrator leading to arbitrary database manipulation and remote code execution. This issue has been patched in endpoint versions 15.0.66, 16.0.89, and 17.0.3.

From the NVD.

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