CVE-2026-20019

Medium

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 NetFlow 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 error checking when Snort 3 parses UDP Netflow Protocol packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a single crafted Netflow packet through an established connection to be parsed by Snort 3. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.8
Exploit probability—
ProductCisco Open Source Snort3
PublishedOct 21, 2026
First seenOct 21, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-835CWE-835

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Cisco Cisco Open Source Snort33.12.2.0, 3.1.2.0, 3.1.3.0, 3.1.4.0, 3.1.5.0, 3.1.6.0, 3.1.7.0, 3.1.8.0, 3.1.9.0, 3.1.10.0, 3.1.12.0, 3.1.13.0, 3.1.14.0, 3.1.15.0, 3.1.16.0, 3.1.17.0, 3.1.18.0, 3.1.19.0, 3.1.20.0, 3.1.21.0, 3.1.22.0, 3.1.23.0, 3.1.24.0, 3.1.25.0, 3.1.27.0, 3.1.28.0, 3.1.29.0, 3.1.30.0, 3.1.31.0, 3.1.32.0, 3.1.36.0, 3.1.38.0, 3.1.39.0, 3.1.40.0, 3.1.41.0, 3.1.42.0, 3.1.43.0, 3.1.45.0, 3.1.47.0, 3.1.48.0, 3.1.50.0, 3.1.51.0, 3.1.52.0, 3.1.53.0, 3.1.55.0, 3.1.56.0, 3.1.57.0, 3.1.58.0, 3.1.59.0, 3.1.60.0, 3.1.61.0, 3.1.62.0, 3.1.63.0, 3.1.64.0, 3.1.65.0, 3.1.66.0, 3.1.67.0, 3.1.69.0, 3.1.70.0, 3.1.71.0, 3.1.72.0, 3.1.73.0, 3.1.74.0, 3.1.75.0, 3.1.76.0, 3.1.77.0, 3.1.78.0, 3.1.81.0, 3.1.82.0, 3.1.83.0, 3.1.84.0, 3.2.1.0, 3.2.2.0, 3.3.0.0, 3.3.1.0, 3.3.2.0, 3.3.3.0, 3.3.4.0, 3.3.5.0, 3.3.7.0, 3.5.0.0, 3.5.1.0, 3.8.1.0, 3.6.0.0, 3.6.2.0, 3.9.3.0, 3.7.2.0, 3.7.0.0, 3.9.6.0, 3.10.0.0, 3.10.2.0, 3.7.4.0, 3.9.0.0, 3.5.2.0, 3.12.1.0, 3.6.1.0, 3.9.2.0, 3.6.3.0, 3.9.5.0, 3.7.1.0, 3.9.7.0, 3.7.3.0, 3.10.1.0, 3.9.1.0, 3.11.1.0—
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software7.0.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.1, 7.0.1.1, 7.0.2, 7.2.0, 7.0.2.1, 7.0.3, 7.2.0.1, 7.0.4, 7.2.1, 7.0.5, 7.3.0, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.3.1, 7.2.4, 7.0.6, 7.2.5, 7.2.4.1, 7.3.1.1, 7.4.0, 7.0.6.1, 7.2.5.1, 7.4.1, 7.2.6, 7.0.6.2, 7.4.1.1, 7.2.7, 7.2.5.2, 7.3.1.2, 7.2.8, 7.6.0, 7.4.2, 7.2.8.1, 7.0.6.3, 7.4.2.1, 7.2.9, 7.0.7, 7.7.0, 7.4.2.2, 7.2.10, 7.6.1, 7.4.2.3, 7.0.8, 7.6.2, 7.7.10, 7.7.11, 7.0.8.1, 7.6.2.1, 7.7.10.1, 7.4.2.4, 7.2.10.2, 7.4.3, 7.6.4, 10.0.0, 7.4.4, 7.0.9, 7.2.11, 7.4.7—
Cisco Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software17.12.1a, 17.12.2, 17.13.1a, 17.12.3, 17.14.1a, 17.12.4, 17.12.3a, 17.15.1a, 17.16.1a, 17.12.4a, 17.15.2c, 17.12.4b, 17.15.2a, 17.12.5, 17.17.1, 17.12.5a, 17.15.3a, 17.15.3, 17.12.5b, 17.12.5c, 17.15.4, 17.18.1, 17.18.1a, 17.12.6, 17.15.4c, 17.12.5d, 17.18.2, 26.1.1, 17.15.5, 17.15.5a, 17.12.7, 17.12.7a, 17.12.7b, 17.18.3a, 17.12.8—

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