CVE-2026-20066

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 TBD Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.8
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.005
38.5th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
Mar 4, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 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 an error in the JSTokenizer normalization logic when the HTTP inspection normalizes JavaScript. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP packets through an established connection that is parsed by Snort 3. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a DoS condition when the Snort 3 Detection Engine restarts unexpectedly. JSTokenizer is not enabled by default.

Weakness: CWE-400

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