Cisco Snort Teredo Detection Engine denial of service

| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Cisco Snort. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Teredo Detection Engine. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-20197. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Cisco Snort (version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Teredo Detection Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Teredo Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection. This vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 parses Teredo packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted Teredo packet to a targeted device to be parsed by Snort. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.
The advisory is available at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-20197 since 10/08/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/21/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
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Product
Vendor
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Website
- Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.7VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.5
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VulDB Temp Score: 7.2
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CNA Base Score: 5.8
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Exploiting
Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
10/08/2025 CVE reserved10/21/2026 Advisory disclosed
10/21/2026 VulDB entry created
10/21/2026 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Vendor: cisco.comAdvisory: sec.cloudapps.cisco.com
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2026-20197 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-20197
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-424886
Entry
Created: 10/21/2026 18:47Changes: 10/21/2026 18:47 (63)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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