CVE-2025-20217

HIGH EPSS 46.9%
Published Aug 14, 202510mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
8.6 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Aug 14, 2025 10mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

A vulnerability in the packet inspection functionality of the Snort 3 Detection Engine of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of traffic that is inspected by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted traffic through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to enter an infinite loop while inspecting traffic, resulting in a DoS condition. The system watchdog will restart the Snort process automatically.

CVSS Details

Base Score
8.6
Exploitability
3.9
Impact
4.0
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
46.9% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-835

References 1

  • sec.cloudapps.cisco.com https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-dos-SvKhtjgt

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.