Medium [CVE-2026-20005 +4] Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
This medium-severity Cisco advisory covers CVE-2026-20005 and CVE-2026-20065 and 3 more CVEs affecting Cisco Cyber Vision, Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.0.0.1.
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Summary
Multiple Cisco products are affected by vulnerabilities in the Snort 3 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. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory.
Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.
This advisory is part of the March 2026 release of the Cisco Secure Firewall ASA, Secure FMC, and Secure FTD Software Security Adv…
Affected products named by the advisory: Cisco Cyber Vision; Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software; Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.0.0.1; Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software 7.0.1.1; and 1 more.
- Scope: For information about which products were affected by these vulnerabilities at the time of publication, see the following sections. Open Source Snort 3
- Release 3.x (first fixed: 3.9.2.0 and later / 3.6.3.0 and later / 3.9.7.0 and later / 3.9.5.0 and later)
- Release 17.12 (first fixed: 17.12.7 (Mar 2026))
- Release 17.15 (first fixed: 17.15.5)
- Release 17.18 (first fixed: 17.18.3 (Apr 2026))
- Release 26.1 (first fixed: 26.1.1 (Mar 2026))
- Earlier than 5.3 — Migrate to a fixed release
- Release 5.3 (first fixed: 5.3.3)
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- 3.9.2.0 and later / 3.6.3.0 and later / 3.9.7.0 and later / 3.9.5.0 and later
- 17.12.7 (Mar 2026)
- 17.15.5
- 17.18.3 (Apr 2026)
- 26.1.1 (Mar 2026)
- 5.3.3
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Mitigation checklist
- Upgrade to the first fixed release for your train per the Fixed Releases table in this advisory.
- Release 3.x: upgrade to 3.9.2.0 and later / 3.6.3.0 and later / 3.9.7.0 and later / 3.9.5.0 and later.
- Release 17.12: upgrade to 17.12.7 (Mar 2026).
- Release 17.15: upgrade to 17.15.5.
- Release 17.18: upgrade to 17.18.3 (Apr 2026).
- Release 26.1: upgrade to 26.1.1 (Mar 2026).
- Earlier than 5.3: migrate to a fixed release.
- Release 5.3: upgrade to 5.3.3.
- There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.
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