CVE-2026-20221: NULL Pointer Dereference in Cisco Cisco Cyber Vision
Description
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel decapsulation feature of the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an unexpected restart of the Snort 3 Detection Engine. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of nested GRE traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE payload through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger an unexpected reload of the Snort 3 Detection Engine, resulting in either a bypass or denial of service (DoS) condition, depending on device configuration. For more information, see the section of this advisory. The Snort 3 Detection Engine will restart automatically. No manual intervention is required.
CVSS v3.1
Score 5.8medium
Affected software
Cisco
Cisco Cyber Vision
Cisco
Cisco Open Source Snort3
Cisco
Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software
Cisco
Cisco Umbrella Insights Virtual Appliance
Cisco
Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- cisco
- Date Reserved
- 2025-10-08T11:59:15.398Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ad8e8d24d27ba8daac3b6ba
Added to database: 10/21/2026, 16:31:14 UTC
Last updated: 10/22/2026, 00:01:13 UTC
Views: 4
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