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.
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Vendor advisories in the News 1
- Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Security Hardening Release: October 2026 Cisco Security Advisories · 2026-10-21
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Change history 9
- StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-26 10:10
- StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-22 19:10
- StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-22 23:18
- StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-22 13:37
- StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-22 14:17
- StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 16:12
- StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-21 18:54
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 16:12
- First seenCVSS 9.0NVD modified 2026-10-21 17:18
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
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