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DoS via heap overflow in Snort 3 VBA decompression (Cisco products)

IdentifiersCVE-2026-20053CWE-787

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) feature that can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the Snort 3 Detection Engine. The issue is caused by improper range checking when decompressing attacker-controlled VBA data. By sending crafted VBA data to the Snort 3 Detection Engine, an attacker can trigger a heap data overflow during decompression, resulting in a denial-of-service condition (engine crash).

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Unauthenticated remote denial of service against the Snort 3 Detection Engine due to a heap overflow-triggered crash, potentially disrupting inspection/detection on the affected device(s).

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