{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "cveMetadata": {"state": "PUBLISHED", "cveId": "CVE-2026-48693", "assignerOrgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca", "assignerShortName": "mitre", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-26T16:48:45.595Z", "dateReserved": "2026-05-22T00:00:00.000Z", "datePublished": "2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca", "shortName": "mitre", "dateUpdated": "2026-05-26T16:48:45.595Z"}, "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "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)."}], "affected": [{"vendor": "n/a", "product": "n/a", "versions": [{"version": "n/a", "status": "affected"}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon"}, {"url": "https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/fastnetmon.cpp"}, {"url": "https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/fastnetmon_logic.cpp"}, {"url": "https://lorikeetsecurity.com/blog/fastnetmon-cve-2026-48693-symlink-tmp"}], "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"type": "text", "lang": "en", "description": "n/a"}]}]}}, "dataVersion": "5.2"}

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{"cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "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)."}], "id": "CVE-2026-48693", "lastModified": "2026-05-26T19:29:02.327", "metrics": {}, "published": "2026-05-26T17:16:53.807", "references": [{"source": "cve@mitre.org", "url": "https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon"}, {"source": "cve@mitre.org", "url": "https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/fastnetmon.cpp"}, {"source": "cve@mitre.org", "url": "https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/fastnetmon_logic.cpp"}, {"source": "cve@mitre.org", "url": "https://lorikeetsecurity.com/blog/fastnetmon-cve-2026-48693-symlink-tmp"}], "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org", "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"}

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{"affected": [{"configurations": [{"platform": null, "status": "affected", "versions": {"scheme": "semver", "value": "[0,1.2.9]"}}], "enrichment": {"confidence": 80.0, "confidence_source": "inferred", "scores": [{"score": 80.0, "source": "inferred"}, {"score": 100.0, "source": "matching"}]}, "original": {"product": "n/a", "source": "cna", "vendor": "n/a"}, "product": "fastnetmon", "vendor": "pavel-odintsov"}], "created": "2026-05-26T18:45:13.157825+00:00", "title": "Symlink Attack Allows Root File Overwrite in FastNetMon Community Edition", "updated": "2026-05-26T19:45:06.099410+00:00", "vendors": ["pavel-odintsov", "pavel-odintsov$PRODUCT$fastnetmon"], "weaknesses": ["CWE-22", "CWE-284"]}