This article discusses meta-issues surrounding security fixes in FreePBX, investigates vulnerability scoring tools, and offers some ideas for improvements. System Administrators should walk away with a better understanding of terms like CVE, CWE, CVSS (including the differences between Base and other metrics), and EPSS.
Attending The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit? Join us in Denver, Colorado, on the morning of June 26, 2025! FreePBX World Summit 2025, proudly sponsored by Sangoma, brings together users and contributors of FreePBX – the world’s most popular open source GUI for the Asterisk telephony toolkit. Over twenty years in the making, FreePBX
Rationale Following the recent move of the FreePBX installation target from CentOS 7 to Debian 12 – which involved lots of infrastructure work over the past year! – multiple internal Sangoma teams needed a more efficient method to deploy the latest FreePBX 17 software to our suite of PBXact hardware appliances, for both new and
The FreePBX project flourishes with the help of its community. Whether you’re a developer, writer, tester, or enthusiastic user, your contributions matter. By participating, you not only enhance the project, but also become part of a dynamic community committed to advancing open-source telephony solutions. With the launch of FreePBX 17, there’s no better time to