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CVE-2026-48686

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS 3.1
Description
FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the BGP NLRI (Network Layer Reachability Information) decoder. The function decode_bgp_subnet_encoding_ipv4_raw() in src/bgp_protocol.cpp reads prefix_bit_length directly from the BGP packet (line 99) without validating it is <= 32 for IPv4 prefixes. This value is passed to how_much_bytes_we_need_for_storing_certain_subnet_mask() which computes ceil(prefix_bit_length / 8), returning up to 32 bytes for a prefix_bit_length of 255. The result is used as the length argument to memcpy() (line 106), which copies into a 4-byte uint32_t stack variable (prefix_ipv4). This causes a stack buffer overflow of up to 28 bytes, which can be exploited for arbitrary code execution. Additionally, the unvalidated prefix_bit_length is passed to convert_cidr_to_binary_netmask_local_function_copy() (line 111), where a shift of (32 - cidr) with cidr > 32 causes undefined behavior.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-48686
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Reserved
2026-05-22 00:00 UTC
Published
2026-05-26 00:00 UTC
Last updated
2026-05-26 20:59 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-787
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Vendor / Product
n/a / n/a
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
total
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
n/a n/a n/a
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
cna n/a
CWE-120 adp CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-787 adp CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.8 CRITICAL 3.1 adp CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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