[ CVE-2026-20221 · Published 21 Oct 2026 ]
Vulnerability in Cisco Cyber Vision
[ Description ]Official description
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel decapsulation feature of the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an unexpected restart of the Snort 3 Detection Engine. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of nested GRE traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE payload through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger an unexpected reload of the Snort 3 Detection Engine, resulting in either a bypass or denial of service (DoS) condition, depending on device configuration. For more information, see the section of this advisory. The Snort 3 Detection Engine will restart automatically. No manual intervention is required.
[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches
No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.
[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories
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NCSC-NLNCSC-2026-0450
Vulnerabilities fixed in Snort 3 from Cisco Translated from Dutch
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BSI CERT-BundWID-SEC-2026-4104
Cisco products (IOS XE, SFTD) and Snort: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German