CVE-2026-20052

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Snort 3 Memory Management Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.8
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.004
35.3th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Vendor-published field
Published
Mar 4, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the memory management handling for the Snort 3 Detection Engine of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart. This vulnerability is due to a logic error in memory management when a device is performing Snort 3 SSL packet inspection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SSL packets through an established connection to be parsed by the Snort 3 Detection Engine. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition when the Snort 3 Detection Engine unexpectedly restarts.

Weakness: CWE-788

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software

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