CVE-2026-20356Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Software Hardening Release: October 2026
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco owned Open Source Snort 3 Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20356 are related to issues concerning uncontrolled resource consumption that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-400.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Published
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected 3.0.0
- affected 3.0.2
- affected 3.0.3
- affected 3.0.1
- affected 3.1.0
- affected 3.0.4
- affected 3.1.1
- affected 3.1.2
- affected 3.2.0
- affected 3.0.5
- affected 3.2.1
- affected 3.0.6
- affected 3.2.2
- affected 3.2.3
- affected 3.2.4
- affected 4.0.0
- affected 4.0.1
- affected 4.0.2
- affected 4.0.3
- affected 4.1.0
- affected 4.1.1
- affected 4.1.2
- affected 4.1.3
- affected 4.1.4
- affected 4.2.0
- affected 4.2.1
- affected 4.1.5
- affected 4.2.2
- affected 4.2.X
- affected 4.2.3
- affected 4.2.4
- affected 4.2.6
- affected 4.1.6
- affected 4.3.0
- affected 4.3.1
- affected 4.3.2
- affected 4.3.3
- affected 4.4.0
- affected 4.4.1
- affected 4.4.2
- and 25 more
Cisco · Cisco Open Source Snort3
- affected 3.12.2.0
- affected 3.1.2.0
- affected 3.1.3.0
- affected 3.1.4.0
- affected 3.1.5.0
- affected 3.1.6.0
- affected 3.1.7.0
- affected 3.1.8.0
- affected 3.1.9.0
- affected 3.1.10.0
- affected 3.1.12.0
- affected 3.1.13.0
- affected 3.1.14.0
- affected 3.1.15.0
- affected 3.1.16.0
- affected 3.1.17.0
- affected 3.1.18.0
- affected 3.1.19.0
- affected 3.1.20.0
- affected 3.1.21.0
- affected 3.1.22.0
- affected 3.1.23.0
- affected 3.1.24.0
- affected 3.1.25.0
- affected 3.1.27.0
- affected 3.1.28.0
- affected 3.1.29.0
- affected 3.1.30.0
- affected 3.1.31.0
- affected 3.1.32.0
- affected 3.1.36.0
- affected 3.1.38.0
- affected 3.1.39.0
- affected 3.1.40.0
- affected 3.1.41.0
- affected 3.1.42.0
- affected 3.1.43.0
- affected 3.1.45.0
- affected 3.1.47.0
- affected 3.1.48.0
- and 65 more
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software
- affected 7.0.0
- affected 7.0.0.1
- affected 7.0.1
- affected 7.0.1.1
- affected 7.0.2
- affected 7.2.0
- affected 7.0.2.1
- affected 7.0.3
- affected 7.2.0.1
- affected 7.0.4
- affected 7.2.1
- affected 7.0.5
- affected 7.3.0
- affected 7.2.2
- affected 7.2.3
- affected 7.3.1
- affected 7.2.4
- affected 7.0.6
- affected 7.2.5
- affected 7.2.4.1
- affected 7.3.1.1
- affected 7.4.0
- affected 7.0.6.1
- affected 7.2.5.1
- affected 7.4.1
- affected 7.2.6
- affected 7.0.6.2
- affected 7.4.1.1
- affected 7.2.7
- affected 7.2.5.2
- affected 7.3.1.2
- affected 7.2.8
- affected 7.6.0
- affected 7.4.2
- affected 7.2.8.1
- affected 7.0.6.3
- affected 7.4.2.1
- affected 7.2.9
- affected 7.0.7
- affected 7.7.0
- and 20 more
Cisco · Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software
- affected 17.12.1a
- affected 17.12.2
- affected 17.13.1a
- affected 17.12.3
- affected 17.14.1a
- affected 17.12.4
- affected 17.12.3a
- affected 17.15.1a
- affected 17.16.1a
- affected 17.12.4a
- affected 17.15.2c
- affected 17.12.4b
- affected 17.15.2a
- affected 17.12.5
- affected 17.17.1
- affected 17.12.5a
- affected 17.15.3a
- affected 17.15.3
- affected 17.12.5b
- affected 17.12.5c
- affected 17.15.4
- affected 17.18.1
- affected 17.18.1a
- affected 17.12.6
- affected 17.15.4c
- affected 17.12.5d
- affected 17.18.2
- affected 26.1.1
- affected 17.15.5
- affected 17.15.5a
- affected 17.12.7
- affected 17.12.7a
- affected 17.12.7b
- affected 17.18.3a
- affected 17.12.8
- affected 17.15.6
- affected 17.18.4
- affected 26.1.2
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory.
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-107380 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
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