# fkie-cad/FACT_core

Firmware Analysis and Comparison Tool

Repository: https://github.com/fkie-cad/FACT_core
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fact_core
Homepage: https://fkie-cad.github.io/FACT_core
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: firmware-tools, firmware-analysis, security-automation, security
Last push: 2026-08-25T15:54:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 78, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3270, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 71, "gap_med": 46, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1460, forks 250 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:47.345335+00:00)

## What it is
FACT (Firmware Analysis and Comparison Tool) is a self-hosted Python application that automates firmware security analysis for devices like routers, IoT gadgets, UEFI images, webcams, and drones. It provides a web UI and REST API for browsing, searching, and comparing analysis results across firmware samples, with an extensible plugin system.

## Use cases
- analyze router firmware for security vulnerabilities
- unpack and inspect IoT device firmware images
- compare two firmware versions to find changes
- scan UEFI images for suspicious components
- search firmware files for hardcoded credentials
- automate firmware analysis via REST API
- browse firmware file trees and analysis results in a web UI

## When to choose
- you need automated, repeatable analysis of black-box firmware samples
- you want a web interface with searchable, comparable results across many firmware images
- you need an extensible analysis platform with a plugin system and REST API for integration
- you analyze IoT, router, UEFI, or embedded device firmware for security research

## When to avoid
- you only need quick one-off binary string extraction without a full analysis platform
- you require a lightweight CLI-only tool with no web server or database dependencies
- you need a commercially supported product rather than a research prototype
- your target is not firmware or embedded binaries

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: security, nlp, parser, search-engine, web-scraping, plugin-system, developer-tools
- domain: security, iot, reverse-engineering, embedded-systems, developer-tools
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: firmware-analysis, firmware-security, iot-security, binary-analysis, rest-api, web-ui, unpacking, comparative-analysis, linux, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- fkie-cad/FACT_core (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.345335+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:35:24.218297+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fkie-cad/FACT_core (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:47.345335+00:00, sha c2b2f24f33e5)
  - homepage: https://fkie-cad.github.io/FACT_core (fetched 2026-08-29T11:44:06.807099+00:00, sha 8b9bda99e60f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.