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NVD Vulnerability Details :
CVE-2026-48692
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More InfoOfficial Page
Source-cve@mitre.org
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Published At-26 May, 2026 | 16:16
Updated At-27 May, 2026 | 18:30

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.

CISA Catalog
Date AddedDue DateVulnerability NameRequired Action
N/A
Date Added: N/A
Due Date: N/A
Vulnerability Name: N/A
Required Action: N/A
Metrics
TypeVersionBase scoreBase severityVector
Primary3.18.1HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Secondary3.18.1HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Type: Primary
Version: 3.1
Base score: 8.1
Base severity: HIGH
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Type: Secondary
Version: 3.1
Base score: 8.1
Base severity: HIGH
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CPE Matches

pavel-odintsov
pavel-odintsov
>>fastnetmon>>Versions up to 1.2.9(inclusive)
cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
Weaknesses
CWE IDTypeSource
CWE-306Secondary134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CWE ID: CWE-306
Type: Secondary
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Evaluator Description

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Vendor Statements

References
HyperlinkSourceResource
https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmoncve@mitre.org
Product
https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/api.cppcve@mitre.org
Product
https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/fastnetmon.cppcve@mitre.org
Product
https://lorikeetsecurity.com/blog/fastnetmon-cve-2026-48692-grpc-no-authcve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
Hyperlink: https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon
Source: cve@mitre.org
Resource:
Product
Hyperlink: https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/api.cpp
Source: cve@mitre.org
Resource:
Product
Hyperlink: https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/fastnetmon.cpp
Source: cve@mitre.org
Resource:
Product
Hyperlink: https://lorikeetsecurity.com/blog/fastnetmon-cve-2026-48692-grpc-no-auth
Source: cve@mitre.org
Resource:
Third Party Advisory
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