Riskcovery

CVE-2026-20291

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Software Hardening Release: October 2026

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Oct 21, 2026
Updated
Oct 22, 2026
Reserved
Oct 8, 2025

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Cyber VisionCisco
  • 3.0.0Affected
  • 3.0.2Affected
  • 3.0.3Affected
  • 3.0.1Affected
  • 3.1.0Affected
  • 3.0.4Affected
  • 3.1.1Affected
  • 3.1.2Affected
  • 3.2.0Affected
  • 3.0.5Affected
  • 3.2.1Affected
  • 3.0.6Affected
  • 3.2.2Affected
  • 3.2.3Affected
  • 3.2.4Affected
  • 4.0.0Affected
  • 4.0.1Affected
  • 4.0.2Affected
  • 4.0.3Affected
  • 4.1.0Affected
  • 4.1.1Affected
  • 4.1.2Affected
  • 4.1.3Affected
  • 4.1.4Affected
  • 4.2.0Affected
  • and 40 more versions
Cisco Open Source Snort3Cisco
  • 3.12.2.0Affected
  • 3.1.2.0Affected
  • 3.1.3.0Affected
  • 3.1.4.0Affected
  • 3.1.5.0Affected
  • 3.1.6.0Affected
  • 3.1.7.0Affected
  • 3.1.8.0Affected
  • 3.1.9.0Affected
  • 3.1.10.0Affected
  • 3.1.12.0Affected
  • 3.1.13.0Affected
  • 3.1.14.0Affected
  • 3.1.15.0Affected
  • 3.1.16.0Affected
  • 3.1.17.0Affected
  • 3.1.18.0Affected
  • 3.1.19.0Affected
  • 3.1.20.0Affected
  • 3.1.21.0Affected
  • 3.1.22.0Affected
  • 3.1.23.0Affected
  • 3.1.24.0Affected
  • 3.1.25.0Affected
  • 3.1.27.0Affected
  • and 80 more versions
Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) SoftwareCisco
  • 7.0.0Affected
  • 7.0.0.1Affected
  • 7.0.1Affected
  • 7.0.1.1Affected
  • 7.0.2Affected
  • 7.2.0Affected
  • 7.0.2.1Affected
  • 7.0.3Affected
  • 7.2.0.1Affected
  • 7.0.4Affected
  • 7.2.1Affected
  • 7.0.5Affected
  • 7.3.0Affected
  • 7.2.2Affected
  • 7.2.3Affected
  • 7.3.1Affected
  • 7.2.4Affected
  • 7.0.6Affected
  • 7.2.5Affected
  • 7.2.4.1Affected
  • 7.3.1.1Affected
  • 7.4.0Affected
  • 7.0.6.1Affected
  • 7.2.5.1Affected
  • 7.4.1Affected
  • and 35 more versions
Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine SoftwareCisco
  • 17.12.1aAffected
  • 17.12.2Affected
  • 17.13.1aAffected
  • 17.12.3Affected
  • 17.14.1aAffected
  • 17.12.4Affected
  • 17.12.3aAffected
  • 17.15.1aAffected
  • 17.16.1aAffected
  • 17.12.4aAffected
  • 17.15.2cAffected
  • 17.12.4bAffected
  • 17.15.2aAffected
  • 17.12.5Affected
  • 17.17.1Affected
  • 17.12.5aAffected
  • 17.15.3aAffected
  • 17.15.3Affected
  • 17.12.5bAffected
  • 17.12.5cAffected
  • 17.15.4Affected
  • 17.18.1Affected
  • 17.18.1aAffected
  • 17.12.6Affected
  • 17.15.4cAffected
  • and 13 more versions

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