Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-48693
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).
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 7.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-48693
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.1.9
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:1.2.8