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Medium 5.8

A vulnerability in the Snort 3 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Decompression Engine of...

CVE-2026-20218 First seen on SecPulse

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed
Cisco Cisco Open Source Snort3 — —
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software — —
Cisco Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software — —
Original description The description as published by the source.

A vulnerability in the Snort 3 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Decompression Engine of multiple Cisco products could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.

This vulnerability is due to improper range checking when Snort 3 decompresses VBA data, which is user controlled. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted VBA data to the Snort 3 Detection Engine of a targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an overflow of stack data, which could result in a DoS condition.

Source: CVE.org (CVE Program・cvelistV5) NVD GitHub Advisory

References

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