CVE-2026-20053

Name
CVE-2026-20053
Description
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 VBA feature that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to crash. This vulnerability is due to improper range checking when decompressing VBA data, which is user controlled. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted VBA data to the Snort 3 Detection Engine on the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an overflow of heap data, which could cause a DoS condition.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
psirt@cisco.com https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-snort3-vbavuls-96UcVVed

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:snort:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* snort >= 3.0.0-233 < 3.9.3.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
snort edge-main 3.9.2.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort edge-main 3.7.3.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort edge-main 3.7.2.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort edge-main 3.7.1.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort edge-main 3.6.3.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort edge-main 3.6.1.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort edge-main 3.6.0.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort edge-main 3.5.2.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort 3.24-main 3.9.2.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort 3.23-main 3.9.2.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort 3.22-main 3.7.3.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort 3.21-main 3.5.2.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort 3.20-main 3.1.82.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
snort 3.19-main 3.1.73.0-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable