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CVE-2025-20359

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 MIME Information Disclosure or Denial of Service Vulnerability

Published: Oct 15, 2025Updated: Oct 16, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-127
6.5CVSSMEDIUM

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 HTTP Decoder that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the disclosure of possible sensitive data or cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to crash. This vulnerability is due to an error in the logic of buffer handling when the MIME fields of the HTTP header are parsed. This can result in a buffer under-read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP packets through an established connection that is parsed by Snort 3. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to induce one of two possible outcomes: the unexpected restarting of the Snort 3 Detection Engine, which could cause a denial of service (DoS) condition, or information disclosure of sensitive information in the Snort 3 data stream. Due to the under-read condition, it is possible that sensitive information that is not valid connection data could be returned.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:LI:NA:L
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:NIntegrity
None
A:LAvailability
Low

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ciscocommercialUSNetworking Infrastructureaka cisco systems, cisco systems inc.

Exploitability

0 exploit sources identified

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References

Timeline

Published
Oct 15, 2025
Last Updated
Oct 16, 2025

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