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.
History

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Title Unauthenticated gRPC API Allows Remote Code Execution and DoS in FastNetMon Community Edition
Weaknesses CWE-284
CWE-73
CWE-863

Tue, 26 May 2026 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Pavel-odintsov
Pavel-odintsov fastnetmon
Vendors & Products Pavel-odintsov
Pavel-odintsov fastnetmon

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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.
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-26T15:32:21.989Z

Reserved: 2026-05-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2026-48692

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-26T16:16:27.007

Modified: 2026-05-26T16:16:27.007

Link: CVE-2026-48692

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-26T17:00:13Z