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-2026-20236 are related to issues concerning incorrect calculation that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-682.
History

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Cisco
Cisco cisco Open Source Snort3
Cisco cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (ftd) Software
Cisco cisco Utd Snort Ips Engine Software
Cisco cyber Vision
Cisco secure Firewall Threat Defense
Vendors & Products Cisco
Cisco cisco Open Source Snort3
Cisco cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (ftd) Software
Cisco cisco Utd Snort Ips Engine Software
Cisco cyber Vision
Cisco secure Firewall Threat Defense

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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-2026-20236 are related to issues concerning incorrect calculation that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-682.
Title Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Software Hardening Release: October 2026
Weaknesses CWE-682
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2026-10-21T16:12:58.186Z

Updated: 2026-10-22T19:10:43.211Z

Reserved: 2025-10-08T11:59:15.400Z

Link: CVE-2026-20236

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-22T13:36:46.123Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-21T17:18:28.247

Modified: 2026-10-22T14:17:41.250

Link: CVE-2026-20236

cve-icon Redhat

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