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CVE-2026-20291

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Software Hardening Release: October 2026

High7.8EPSS 0.16%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
cisco

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-2026-20291 are related to issues concerning improper privilege management that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-269.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2026-20291, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
ciscoCNA (assigner)3.1High7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis3.1High7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
0.16% · top 95% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Cisco · Cisco Cyber Vision

    • 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 (1)

Sources

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