Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-20043
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-2026-20043 are related to issues concerning out-of-bounds writes that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-787.
CVSS Score
9
Critical
EPSS — Exploit Probability
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Awaiting FIRST.org data · checked 2026-10-22
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV
KEV does not include every exploited vulnerability
Remediation
unknown
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1 article across 1 outlet · first covered Oct 22, 2026 · latest Oct 22, 2026
Coverage timeline
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Cisco fixes Snort flaws that could crash firewalls or bypass inspectionsecurityonline.info · Oct 22, 2026