We study the deformation theory of the Fano scheme \(\textrm{F}=\textrm{F}(\textrm{X})\) of lines on a cubic \(\textrm{X}\) of dimension d with only finitely many singularities. By taking the relative Fano scheme, we define a morphism \(\eta :\mathcal {D}_{\textrm{X}}\rightarrow \mathcal {D}_{\textrm{F}}\) of the local moduli functors associated to \(\textrm{X}\) and \(\textrm{F}\) , respectively. We show that for \(d\geqslant 5\) , \(\eta \) yields an isomorphism on first-order deformations; in particular, \(\eta \) is an isomorphism whenever \(\textrm{H}^{0}(\Theta _{\textrm{X}})=0\) .