CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-48692

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.23%

14th percentile - higher than 14% of all known CVEs

Summary

FastNetMon Community Edition up to 1.2.9 exposes an unauthenticated gRPC API on port 50052. An attacker with network access can ban IPs, unban attacks, and execute external scripts.

Risk Assessment

Risk includes network DoS, disabling DDoS protection, and remote code execution via scripts.

Recommendation

Upgrade FastNetMon to a version with authentication or implement additional network security controls.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS