CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-20005

MediumCVSS 5.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.49%

40th percentile - higher than 40% of all known CVEs

Summary

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 incomplete parsing of the SSL handshake ingress packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SSL handshake packets. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition when the Snort 3 Detection Engine restarts unexpectedly.

Risk Assessment

The risk involves potential interruption of packet inspection, which could lead to undetected malicious traffic and potential network security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Cisco products to patched versions and monitor SSL traffic for suspicious packets.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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 incomplete parsing of the SSL handshake ingress packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SSL handshake packets. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition when the Snort 3 Detection Engine restarts unexpectedly.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS