CVE 9.8 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-48686_CVE-2026-48686

9.8 / 10
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

AI Analysis

Stack-based buffer overflow in BGP NLRI decoder

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-48686
Source mitre
Published May 26, 2026 at 00:00
Modified May 26, 2026 at 20:59

Affected Product

Vendor Evil by Design
Product FastNetMon Community Edition
Version 1.2.9
Affected Versions n/a n/a n/a

CWE Classification

AI Assessment

AI Score 9.8 / 10
AI Severity Critical
Vendor Evil by Design
Product FastNetMon Community Edition
Version 1.2.9

References

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