CVE-2026-44668: FACTION missing authentication in BoilerPlateConfig templates

CVE-2026-44668 · Severity: critical · CVSS 9.8 · Published 2026-05-26

FACTION, a collaboration framework used by security teams to generate penetration testing reports, contains a flaw that allows unauthorized individuals to access the system without a password. An attacker can remotely read, modify, or permanently delete report templates, which often contain sensitive proprietary testing methodologies and confidential security findings. This could lead to the loss of critical intellectual property or the silent injection of malicious or false information into client-facing security reports.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-44668 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-44668 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-44668?
Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 9.8, published 26 May 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
factionsecurity FACTION < 1.8.3.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-44668?
A patch was published on 2026-05-05: Version 1.8.3 released Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
How is CVE-2026-44668 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-44668?
Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

A missing authentication vulnerability exists in FACTION's AccessControlInterceptor, which serves as the primary security gate for Struts2 actions. The interceptor fails to validate sessions before calling invocation.invoke(), allowing requests to reach backend action methods regardless of authentication status. While many methods implement local session checks, four specific endpoints in BoilerPlateConfig (tempDelete, tempActive, globalSaveTemplate, and searchTemplateDetail) do not. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this to perform CRUD operations on boilerplate templates by iterating through sequential integer IDs. This allows for the unauthorized disclosure of private templates, modification of global templates used in reporting, or permanent deletion of the template database. The issue is resolved in version 1.8.3 by enforcing session validation within the interceptor and adding local checks to the affected methods.

Affected products

  • factionsecurity FACTION < 1.8.3

Timeline

  • 2026-05-05: patched: Version 1.8.3 released
  • 2026-05-26: advisory: GitHub Security Advisory published
  • 2026-05-26: disclosed: CVE-2026-44668 published to NVD

References

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