CVE-2026-20043
Status: Awaiting AnalysisCritical (9)—
Severity9Critical · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability—next 30 days
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
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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
- Base score
- 9
- Version
- 3.1
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
FIRST hasn't scored this CVE yet (usual for very recent or rejected CVEs).
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
ATT&CK techniques
How this vulnerability is exploited and what the attacker gains, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.
- Exploitation
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access85 % - Primary impact
T1059Command and Scripting Interpreterexecution30 % - Secondary impact
T1499Endpoint Denial of Serviceimpact25 %
Vector AV:N/PR:N/UI:N permite explotación remota sin autenticación; el texto solo cita escrituras fuera de límites (CWE-787). Impactos C/I/A altos sugieren ejecución, no confirmada por el texto.
Inferred by our analysis agent from the official description, CVSS vector and CWE, and checked by a supervisor. May contain errors.
ATT&CK mitigations that cover these techniques
Affected technologies (5)
⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.
CWEs
- CWE-787
References
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"url": "https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-snort3-ybgmhTQe",
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