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CVE-2025-57819 Sangoma CVE debrief
CVE-2025-57819 is a Sangoma FreePBX authentication bypass vulnerability that CISA added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-08-29. Because it is in KEV, defenders should treat it as an active-exploitation risk and move quickly to vendor-directed mitigation, patching, or removal if mitigation is not possible.
- Vendor
- Sangoma
- Product
- FreePBX
- CVSS
- CRITICAL 10
- CISA KEV
- Listed
- Original CVE published
- 2025-08-28
- Original CVE updated
- 2026-09-26
- Advisory published
- 2025-08-28
- Advisory updated
- 2026-09-26
Who should care
Organizations running Sangoma FreePBX, especially telecom/VoIP administrators, managed service providers, and security teams responsible for internet-facing or business-critical communications systems.
Technical summary
The public record identifies an authentication bypass affecting Sangoma FreePBX. CISA’s KEV entry indicates the issue is known to be exploited in the wild and directs affected users to apply vendor mitigations, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. The source corpus does not provide additional technical details about affected versions, attack path, or post-bypass impact.
Defensive priority
High priority / urgent remediation. KEV-listed issues are time-sensitive, and CISA’s due date for this entry is 2025-09-19.
Recommended defensive actions
- Inventory all Sangoma FreePBX deployments, including cloud-hosted and externally exposed systems.
- Review the official FreePBX security advisory and apply vendor-provided mitigations or updates as soon as possible.
- If FreePBX is provided through a cloud service, follow applicable CISA BOD 22-01 guidance.
- If mitigations are unavailable or cannot be applied promptly, discontinue use of the product until risk is reduced.
- Monitor authentication, administrative, and access logs for suspicious activity and investigate any unexpected access.
- Confirm incident-response contacts and backups are current before making changes to production communications systems.
Evidence notes
This debrief is based only on the supplied CISA KEV source item and the official record links provided in the corpus. The source item names the issue as a Sangoma FreePBX authentication bypass vulnerability, marks it as KEV-listed, and provides the vendor-directed remediation language. No additional exploit mechanics, affected versions, or severity score were included in the supplied corpus.
Sources and references
Verified primary and authoritative sources
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CVE-2025-57819 CVE Program record
Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified
URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-57819
CVE Program - Official CVE Program record with source-provided CVE metadata.
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CVE-2025-57819 NVD vulnerability detail
Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified
URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57819
NIST National Vulnerability Database - Official NIST NVD detail page and source-specific vulnerability assessment.
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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified
URL: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency - Official CISA catalog of vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild.
Supplemental references
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Source item URL
Unverified legacy reference
URL: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json
cisa_kev
Methodology and review provenance
AI-assisted synthesis based on stored public vulnerability evidence. System validation, approval state, and publication status do not by themselves establish human review of this revision. PatchSiren helps prioritize defensive review and does not prove exposure or remediation on any system.