Description
FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 has out-of-bounds memory access because it incorrectly parses BGP path attributes with the extended length flag set. In src/bgp_protocol.hpp, the parse_raw_bgp_attribute() function correctly identifies when extended_length_bit is set and sets length_of_length_field to 2, but then reads only a single byte for the attribute value length (attribute_value_length = value[2] at line 173). Per RFC 4271 Section 4.3, when the Extended Length bit is set, the Attribute Length field is two octets and the value should be read as a 16-bit big-endian integer from value[2] and value[3]. As a result, any attribute longer than 255 bytes has its length silently truncated to the low byte (e.g., 300 bytes = 0x012C is read as 0x2C = 44 bytes). The remaining 256 bytes are then misinterpreted as subsequent attributes, causing cascading parse failures and potential out-of-bounds memory access.
Published: 2026-05-26
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Wed, 27 May 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:pavel-odintsov:fastnetmon:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

Wed, 27 May 2026 02:45:00 +0000

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Title FastNetMon BGP Extended Length Parsing Flaw

Wed, 27 May 2026 01:00:00 +0000

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Title FastNetMon Community Edition BGP Attribute Length Parsing Vulnerability Causing OOB Access
Weaknesses CWE-119

Tue, 26 May 2026 21:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-130
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 26 May 2026 17:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Pavel-odintsov
Pavel-odintsov fastnetmon
Vendors & Products Pavel-odintsov
Pavel-odintsov fastnetmon

Tue, 26 May 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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Title FastNetMon Community Edition BGP Attribute Length Parsing Vulnerability Causing OOB Access
Weaknesses CWE-119

Tue, 26 May 2026 15:45:00 +0000

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Description FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 has out-of-bounds memory access because it incorrectly parses BGP path attributes with the extended length flag set. In src/bgp_protocol.hpp, the parse_raw_bgp_attribute() function correctly identifies when extended_length_bit is set and sets length_of_length_field to 2, but then reads only a single byte for the attribute value length (attribute_value_length = value[2] at line 173). Per RFC 4271 Section 4.3, when the Extended Length bit is set, the Attribute Length field is two octets and the value should be read as a 16-bit big-endian integer from value[2] and value[3]. As a result, any attribute longer than 255 bytes has its length silently truncated to the low byte (e.g., 300 bytes = 0x012C is read as 0x2C = 44 bytes). The remaining 256 bytes are then misinterpreted as subsequent attributes, causing cascading parse failures and potential out-of-bounds memory access.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-26T20:56:12.251Z

Reserved: 2026-05-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2026-48685

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-26T20:56:06.826Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-05-26T16:16:26.570

Modified: 2026-06-17T10:55:10.310

Link: CVE-2026-48685

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-27T02:30:05Z

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