{"id":"CVE-2026-20179","aliases":["EUVD-2026-107373","GHSA-9v2c-x8g8-r7m4"],"status":"published","title":"Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation Denial of Service Vulnerabilities","description":"Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) 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.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 parses GRE packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE packet to a targeted device to be parsed by Snort. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00495,"percentile":0.42734,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-128"],"published":"2026-10-21T16:12:29Z","modified":"2026-10-22T19:11:03Z","products":[{"vendor":"cisco","product":"cisco open source snort3"},{"vendor":"cisco","product":"cisco secure firewall threat defense (ftd) software"},{"vendor":"cisco","product":"cisco utd snort ips engine software"}],"references":[{"url":"https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort3-misc-dos-6mB22qAK"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20179"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9v2c-x8g8-r7m4"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-20179","title":"Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation Denial of Service Vulnerabilities","description":"Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) 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.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 parses GRE packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE packet to a targeted device to be parsed by Snort. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-21T16:12:29.897Z","modified":"2026-10-22T19:11:03.271Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-128"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:35:44.571002Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-107373","description":"Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) 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.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 parses GRE packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE packet to a targeted device to be parsed by Snort. 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