Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the memory management implementation of Snort 3 that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection.

This vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 processes files, which could cause unreleased memory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of files to be processed. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Cisco Cisco Open Source Snort3 unknown
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3.10.1.0 affected —
3.9.1.0 affected —
3.11.1.0 affected —
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software unknown
Version Status Constraints
7.0.0 affected —
7.0.0.1 affected —
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References
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History

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the memory management implementation of Snort 3 that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection. This vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 processes files, which could cause unreleased memory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of files to be processed. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.
Title Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic File Processing Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-401
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-21T16:17:23.396Z

Reserved: 2026-08-19T12:02:03.640Z

Link: CVE-2026-76489

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-21T17:19:08.163

Modified: 2026-10-21T18:54:37.403

Link: CVE-2026-76489

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Updated: 2026-10-21T21:15:16Z

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