CVE-2026-20011
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 SMTP MIME Decoder that could…
- Risk score
- 52/100
- CVSS
- 5.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.4%
- Published
- 21 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 SMTP MIME Decoder that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart. This vulnerability is due to a lack of error checking when the MIME fields of the SMTP header are parsed. An attacker could exp…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 5.8 medium
- On your watchlist: cisco
References
Original description
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 SMTP MIME Decoder that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart. This vulnerability is due to a lack of error checking when the MIME fields of the SMTP header are parsed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SMTP packets through an established connection to be parsed by Snort 3. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition when the Snort 3 Detection Engine unexpectedly restarts.
Last activity 21 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.