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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-48692 EUVD-2026-31845GHSA-w743-79pp-vx63

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 exposes a gRPC API server on port 50052 with no authentication mechanism. The server is initiali…

Published May 26, 2026 · Updated May 26, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 fastnetmon No fix yet —
Debian 13 fastnetmon No fix yet —
Debian 12 fastnetmon No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 fastnetmon No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 fastnetmon No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS fastnetmon No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS fastnetmon No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS fastnetmon No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS fastnetmon No fix yet —

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