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CVE-2026-20218

No fix known EPSS <1%CVSS 5.8

A vulnerability in the Snort 3 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Decompression Engine of multiple Cisco products could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.&nbsp;&nbsp; This vulnerability is due to improper range checking when Snort 3 decompresses VBA data, which is user controlled. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted VBA data to the Snort 3 Detection Engine of a targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an overflow of stack data, which could result in a DoS condition.

Published 2026-10-21 · CVE record · OSV

Products: Cisco Open Source Snort3, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software, Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software