Bug 2481503 (CVE-2026-48692) - CVE-2026-48692 fastnetmon: FastNetMon Community Edition: Denial of Service and arbitrary script execution via unauthenticated gRPC API
Summary: CVE-2026-48692 fastnetmon: FastNetMon Community Edition: Denial of Service an...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-48692
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2482675 2482676
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Reported: 2026-05-26 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-28 12:55 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-26 16:02:04 UTC
FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 exposes a gRPC API server on port 50052 with no authentication mechanism. The server is initialized with grpc::InsecureServerCredentials() (src/fastnetmon.cpp line 477) and a source code comment explicitly acknowledges 'Listen on the given address without any authentication mechanism.' None of the RPC methods in src/api.cpp (ExecuteBan, ExecuteUnBan, GetBanlist, GetTotalTrafficCounters, etc.) perform any credential verification. The ExecuteBan and ExecuteUnBan methods trigger security-critical actions: BGP route announcements that can blackhole network traffic, and execution of external notification scripts via popen(). An attacker with local network access can ban arbitrary IP addresses (causing denial of service to legitimate traffic), unban active attacks (disabling DDoS mitigation), and trigger script execution. There is also no role-based access control separating read-only monitoring from destructive administrative operations.


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