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CVE-2025-27422: FACTION Allows Authentication Bypass via User Creation

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

FACTION is a PenTesting Report Generation and Collaboration Framework. Authentication is bypassed when an attacker registers a new user with admin privileges. This is possible at any time without any authorization. The request must follow the validation rules (no missing information, secure password, etc) but there are no other controls stopping them. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.3.

Affected products

• factionsecurity faction: before 1.4.3

References

• https://github.com/factionsecurity/faction/commit/0a6848d388d6dba1c81918cce2772b1e805cd3d6
• https://github.com/factionsecurity/faction/security/advisories/GHSA-97cv-f342-v2jc

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