CVE-2026-20027

Cisco Snort DCERPC Stub Data Out of Bounds Read

Severity
Medium 5.3
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.006
43.8th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Jan 7, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the processing of DCE/RPC requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to leak sensitive information or to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection. This vulnerability is due to an error in buffer handling logic when processing DCE/RPC requests, which can result in a buffer out-of-bounds read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of DCE/RPC requests through an established connection that is inspected by Snort 3. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information in the Snort 3 data stream.

Weakness: CWE-200

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Threat Detection & Sandbox cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software
  • Cisco · Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software