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CVE-2026-20053

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…

Published Mar 4, 2026 · updated Aug 20, 2026 · cisco snort

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.

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  1. Mar 4, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    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

  2. Aug 20, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    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

Affected

  • cpe cisco/cyber vision3.0.0
  • cpe cisco/cyber vision3.0.1
  • cpe cisco/cyber vision3.0.2
  • cpe cisco/cyber vision3.0.3
  • cpe cisco/cyber vision3.0.4
  • cpe cisco/cyber vision3.0.5
  • cpe cisco/cyber vision3.0.6
  • cpe cisco/secure firewall threat defense7.2.0
  • cpe cisco/snortversion unspecified
  • cpe cisco/unified threat defense snort intrusion prevention system engine17.9.4

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-20053

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-20053

    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 us

    nvd.nist.gov

References

CVE-2026-20053 · ZeroDay Findings