CVE-2026-20218: Cisco reports an unauthenticated remote denial-of-service flaw in the Snort 3 VBA decompression engine. Crafted VBA data can restart the detection engine. CVSS 5.8.

It affects Secure Firewall Threat Defense and open-source Snort 3. No known exploitation. Upgrade to fixed Snort 3 releases; VBA decompression is off by default.

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort3-vba-bufdos-jAuFdvn9

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