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).

• CWE-59

• https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmonProduct
• https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/fastnetmon.cppProduct
• https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/fastnetmon_logic.cppProduct
• https://lorikeetsecurity.com/blog/fastnetmon-cve-2026-48693-symlink-tmpThird Party Advisory

Published

May 26, 2026

Last Modified

Jul 24, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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