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Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 VBA feature that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to crash.  This vulnerability is due to improper error checking when decompressing VBA data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted VBA data to the Snort 3 Detection Engine on the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to enter an infinite loop, causing a DoS condition.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-08 | Published 2026-03-04 | Updated 2026-03-04 | Assigner cisco




MEDIUM: 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Problem types

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Product status

Default status
unknown

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
affected

4.4.3
affected

4.1.7
affected

5.0.0
affected

5.0.1
affected

5.0.2
affected

5.1.0
affected

5.1.1
affected

5.1.2
affected

5.1.3
affected

5.2.0
affected

5.2.1
affected

5.3.0
affected

5.3.1
affected

5.3.2
affected

Default status
unknown

7.2.0
affected

7.2.0.1
affected

7.2.1
affected

7.3.0
affected

7.2.2
affected

7.2.3
affected

7.3.1
affected

7.2.4
affected

7.2.5
affected

7.2.4.1
affected

7.3.1.1
affected

7.4.0
affected

7.2.5.1
affected

7.4.1
affected

7.2.6
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

7.4.2.1
affected

7.2.9
affected

7.7.0
affected

7.4.2.2
affected

7.2.10
affected

7.6.1
affected

7.4.2.3
affected

7.6.2
affected

7.7.10
affected

7.6.2.1
affected

7.7.10.1
affected

7.4.2.4
affected

7.2.10.2
affected

7.4.3
affected

Default status
unknown

3.17.1S
affected

16.12.3
affected

Fuji-16.9.5
affected

16.12.4
affected

17.3.1a
affected

16.6.6
affected

16.12.2
affected

Fuji-16.9.6
affected

3.17.0S
affected

Fuji-16.9.3
affected

Denali-16.3.7
affected

Fuji-16.9.2
affected

Fuji-16.9.4
affected

Everest-16.6.4
affected

Everest-16.6.3
affected

16.6.5
affected

Denali-16.3.5
affected

17.2.1r
affected

17.1.1
affected

Everest-16.6.2
affected

16.6.7a
affected

Denali-16.3.4
affected

16.6.1
affected

Denali-16.3.9
affected

Denali-16.3.3
affected

16.12.1a
affected

17.3.2
affected

17.4.1a
affected

16.12.5
affected

17.5.1
affected

Fuji-16.9.7
affected

16.6.9
affected

17.3.3
affected

17.5.1a
affected

17.3.4
affected

17.3.4a
affected

17.4.2
affected

17.4.1b
affected

17.6.1a
affected

16.6.10
affected

17.7.1a
affected

16.12.6
affected

Fuji-16.9.8
affected

17.6.2
affected

17.8.1a
affected

16.12.7
affected

17.3.5
affected

17.6.3
affected

17.6.3a
affected

17.7.2
affected

17.9.1a
affected

17.6.4
affected

17.10.1a
affected

17.3.6
affected

16.12.8
affected

17.3.7
affected

17.9.2a
affected

17.6.5
affected

17.11.1a
affected

17.9.3a
affected

17.12.1a
affected

17.9.4
affected

17.6.6
affected

17.3.8
affected

17.3.8a
affected

17.6.6a
affected

17.9.4a
affected

17.12.2
affected

17.13.1a
affected

17.9.5a
affected

17.12.3
affected

17.6.7
affected

17.14.1a
affected

17.12.4
affected

17.12.3a
affected

17.15.1a
affected

17.6.8
affected

17.9.6
affected

17.6.8a
affected

17.16.1a
affected

17.9.5e
affected

17.12.4a
affected

17.15.2c
affected

17.9.5f
affected

17.12.4b
affected

17.15.2a
affected

17.12.5
affected

17.17.1
affected

17.12.5a
affected

17.9.7a
affected

17.15.3a
affected

17.15.3
affected

17.12.5b
affected

17.12.5c
affected

17.15.4
affected

17.9.7b
affected

17.18.1
affected

17.18.1a
affected

17.12.6
affected

17.9.8
affected

17.15.4c
affected

17.12.5d
affected

17.18.2
affected

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/...co-sa-ftd-snort3-vbavuls-96UcVVed (cisco-sa-ftd-snort3-vbavuls-96UcVVed)

cve.org (CVE-2026-20054)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-20054)

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