CVE-2026-20057
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) feature which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to crash. This vulnerability is due to lack of proper error checking when decompressing VBA data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted VBA data to the Snort 3 Detection Engine on the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to unexpectedly restart causing a a denial of service (DoS) condition.
Published:Mar 4, 2026
Last Modified:Aug 20, 2026
EPS:Mar 4, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00432
CVSS Score:5.8
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Cisco Utd Snort Ips Engine Software
Cisco
Cisco Utd Snort Ips Engine Software
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Cyber Vision
Cisco
Cyber Vision
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Secure Firewall Threat Defense
Cisco
Secure Firewall Threat Defense
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Snort
Cisco
Snort
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Unified Threat Defense Snort Intrusion Prevention System Engine
Cisco
Unified Threat Defense Snort Intrusion Prevention System Engine
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
