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.
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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. | |
| Title | Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Software Hardening Release: October 2026 | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-269 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: cisco
Published: 2026-10-21T16:12:53.383Z
Updated: 2026-10-22T23:04:46.063Z
Reserved: 2025-10-08T11:59:15.405Z
Link: CVE-2026-20291
Updated: 2026-10-22T13:36:59.445Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-21T17:18:28.473
Modified: 2026-10-22T23:18:31.427
Link: CVE-2026-20291
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