CVE-2026-20057

Name
CVE-2026-20057
Description
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.
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