cisco cyber-vision CVE-2026-20356 is a vulnerability in Cisco Cyber Vision
Published on October 21, 2026

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Software Hardening Release: October 2026
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-2026-20356 are related to issues concerning uncontrolled resource consumption that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-400.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2026-20356 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?

The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

CVE-2026-20356 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2026-20356

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Affected Versions

Cisco Cyber Vision: Cisco Open Source Snort3: Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software: Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software: