Oh, Joy. FreePBX is Screwed. Again.
Right, listen up you lot. Apparently, some zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in FreePBX servers. A *zero-day*, meaning the poor sods writing this code didn’t even know about it until someone started exploiting it. Fantastic. Just bloody fantastic.
What does that mean for you? If you’re running a vulnerable version of FreePBX (and let’s be honest, if you haven’t updated in the last five minutes, you probably are), your server is likely compromised or *will* be. They’re talking about backdoor access, call interception, data theft – the whole shebang. Basically, everything you thought was private? Isn’t.
There’s an emergency patch available now, so for once, someone actually did something useful. Go install it. NOW. Don’t wait. Don’t think about it. Just do it before some script kiddie turns your phone system into a botnet node or starts charging people exorbitant rates to call the Bahamas.
The vulnerability is in the A2billing module, so if you aren’t using that… well, good for you. Still update anyway, because who knows what other crap they’ve left lying around. Honestly, I expect better security from a toaster oven these days.
Don’t come crying to me when your system is pwned. You were warned.
Speaking of phone systems, I once had to deal with a company that was running FreePBX on a server powered by a potato and secured with a password of “password”. Seriously. The entire thing was held together with duct tape and wishful thinking. It took me three days and an industrial-strength disinfectant wipe just to get near the damn thing without contracting some sort of digital plague. Don’t be that company.
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