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CVE-2026-48689

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS 3.1
Description
FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 contains an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in the dynamic_binary_buffer_t class (src/dynamic_binary_buffer.hpp). Five methods (append_dynamic_buffer, append_data_as_pointer, append_data_as_object_ptr, memcpy_from_ptr, memcpy_from_object_ptr) use an incorrect bounds check of the form 'if (offset + length > maximum_internal_storage_size + 1)' instead of the correct 'if (offset + length > maximum_internal_storage_size)'. This allows writing exactly one byte past the end of the heap-allocated buffer. The class is used pervasively in BGP message encoding/decoding, NetFlow template processing, and Flow Spec NLRI construction. An attacker who can send network traffic (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, or BGP) to a FastNetMon instance can trigger this overflow, potentially achieving arbitrary code execution by corrupting heap metadata. Notably, the append_byte() method uses the correct bounds check, confirming the inconsistency.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-48689
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Reserved
2026-05-22 00:00 UTC
Published
2026-05-26 00:00 UTC
Last updated
2026-05-27 00:20 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-193
CWE-193 Off-by-one Error
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-122 adp CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-193 adp CWE-193 Off-by-one Error
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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