CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-48693

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

Vulnerability in FastNetMon Community Edition up to version 1.2.9. A local attacker can exploit predictable file paths in /tmp to overwrite arbitrary files as the FastNetMon user (typically root).

Risk Assessment

An attacker could overwrite critical system files, leading to privilege escalation or full system compromise.

Recommendation

Update FastNetMon to the latest version or apply a workaround by changing the statistics file path to a secure location.

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Original NVD description (English source)

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 is vulnerable to a local symlink attack via predictable file paths in /tmp. The statistics file path defaults to '/tmp/fastnetmon.dat' (src/fastnetmon.cpp line 159). The print_screen_contents_into_file() function (src/fastnetmon_logic.cpp line 2186) opens this path with std::ios::trunc without checking for symlinks or using O_NOFOLLOW. Additionally, the chmod() call on line 2190 always operates on cli_stats_file_path regardless of which file_path parameter was passed (a bug that applies wrong permissions), and the umask is set to 0 during daemonization (src/fastnetmon.cpp line 1821), making all created files world-writable. A local attacker can exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files as the FastNetMon process user (typically root).

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