CVE-2026-20179Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) 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 error checking when Snort 3 parses GRE packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE packet to a targeted device to be parsed by Snort. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.
- CVSS
- 5.8 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-128
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- cisco
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Oct 21, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 21, 2026
Affected products
Cisco Cisco Open Source Snort3 cisco:open_source_snort3 (from the name) | 3.12.2.0; 3.1.2.0; 3.1.3.0; 3.1.4.0; 3.1.5.0; 3.1.6.0; 3.1.7.0; 3.1.8.0; and 97 more ranges | CNA record |
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software cisco:secure_firewall_threat_defense_ftd_software (from the name) | 7.0.0; 7.0.0.1; 7.0.1; 7.0.1.1; 7.0.2; 7.2.0; 7.0.2.1; 7.0.3; and 52 more ranges | CNA record |
Cisco Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software cisco:utd_snort_ips_engine_software (from the name) | 17.12.1a; 17.12.2; 17.13.1a; 17.12.3; 17.14.1a; 17.12.4; 17.12.3a; 17.15.1a; and 30 more ranges | CNA record |
References
- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort3-misc-dos-6mB22qAK
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