CVE-2026-20005

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting

Severity
Medium 5.8
CVSS 3.1
Remote · no auth what this means
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.005
41.4th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Mar 4, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection. This vulnerability is due to incomplete parsing of the SSL handshake ingress packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SSL handshake packets. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition when the Snort 3 Detection Engine restarts unexpectedly.

Weakness: CWE-392

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Cyber Vision OT / IoT Security cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Check your version Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Threat Detection & Sandbox cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (3)
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software
  • Cisco · Cisco Cyber Vision
  • Cisco · Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software

Vendor advisory

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Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Cisco’s rating: Medium (advisory CVSS 5.8) · Published Mar 4, 2026

Bug IDs: CSCwn49805 , CSCwn65473 , CSCwo93207 , CSCwo93208 , CSCwp99280 , CSCwq01529 , CSCwq01530 , CSCwq03411 , CSCwq23374 , CSCwq82404 , CSCwq97624 , CSCwq97644 , CSCwq97649 , CSCwr21398

The vendor’s rating applies to the whole advisory and can differ from this CVE’s own CVSS severity. Where this comes from

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