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CVE-2026-48687
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2026-05-26 · updated 2026-07-21
- Weakness: CWE-78
Description
FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in the Juniper router integration plugin. The _log() function in src/juniper_plugin/fastnetmon_juniper.php (lines 117-118) constructs shell commands by concatenating the $msg parameter directly into exec() calls: exec("echo `date` \"- {FASTNETMON] - " . $msg . " \" >> " . $FILE_LOG_TMP). The $msg variable contains unsanitized data derived from command-line arguments argv[1] through argv[3], which represent the attack IP address, direction, and power. While FastNetMon's C++ core currently passes IP addresses via inet_ntoa() (which only produces safe dotted-decimal notation), the PHP script performs no input validation or shell escaping. If the script is invoked directly, by another orchestration system, or if future code changes pass string-sourced IPs, arbitrary commands can be injected. The correct fix is to replace exec() with file_put_contents() or use escapeshellarg() on all parameters.
Affected products
- Pavel-Odintsov Fastnetmon: through 1.2.9
References
- https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon
- https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/juniper_plugin/fastnetmon_juniper.php
- https://lorikeetsecurity.com/blog/fastnetmon-cve-2026-48687-juniper-cmd-injection
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