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CVE-2026-20007 Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense

Affected softwareCisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense
Severity5.8 Medium CVSS 3.1
WeaknessImproper access control (CWE-284)
Published4 Mar 2026
Updated20 Aug 2026

Description

A vulnerability in the Snort 2 and Snort 3 deep packet inspection of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured Snort rules and allow traffic onto the network that should have been dropped. This vulnerability is due to a logic error in the integration of the Snort Engine rules with Cisco Secure FTD Software that could allow different Snort rules to be hit when deep inspection of the packet is performed for the inner and outer connections. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted traffic to a targeted device that would hit configured Snort rules. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to send traffic to a network where it should have been denied.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check.
  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 0.27% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

Outside Waratek scope

A Java vulnerability, but not one Waratek protects. It affects only Java on a user's desktop (applets, Web Start, JavaFX, the installer), sits in a product the Waratek agent can't be installed into, or is in a package we don't expect in business applications. The decision below says which.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued none
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by The only affected product being a sealed appliance image, where Java runs but no -javaagent can be attached
Finding This CVE names only products the Waratek agent cannot be installed into (cisco/secure_firewall_threat_defense). They ship as sealed appliance images or as native code with no application JVM, so there is no start-up line to add -javaagent to. The vulnerability may well be a Java one; it is permanently out of ARMR's reach rather than outside its subject.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

1 product, 73 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd cisco secure firewall threat defense generic 6.4.0 · 6.4.0.1 · 6.4.0.2 · 6.4.0.3 · 6.4.0.4 · 6.4.0.5 · 6.4.0.6 · 6.4.0.7 · 6.4.0.8 · 6.4.0.9 · 6.4.0.10 · 6.4.0.11 · 6.4.0.12 · 6.4.0.13 · 6.4.0.14 · 6.4.0.15 · 6.4.0.16 · 6.4.0.17 · 6.4.0.18 · 7.0.0 · 7.0.0.1 · 7.0.1 · 7.0.1.1 · 7.0.2 · 7.0.2.1 · 7.0.3 · 7.0.4 · 7.0.5 · 7.0.6 · 7.0.6.1 · 7.0.6.2 · 7.0.6.3 · 7.0.7 · 7.0.8 · 7.0.8.1 · 7.1.0 · 7.1.0.1 · 7.1.0.2 · 7.1.0.3 · 7.2.0 · 7.2.0.1 · 7.2.1 · 7.2.2 · 7.2.3 · 7.2.4 · 7.2.4.1 · 7.2.5 · 7.2.5.1 · 7.2.5.2 · 7.2.6 · 7.2.7 · 7.2.8 · 7.2.8.1 · 7.2.9 · 7.2.10 · 7.2.10.2 · 7.3.0 · 7.3.1 · 7.3.1.1 · 7.3.1.2 · 7.4.0 · 7.4.1 · 7.4.1.1 · 7.4.2 · 7.4.2.1 · 7.4.2.2 · 7.4.2.3 · 7.4.2.4 · 7.6.0 · 7.6.1 · 7.6.2 · 7.6.2.1 · 7.7.0

References

URLTags
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-snort-bypass-rLggKzVF Vendor Advisory

Timeline
Published2026-03-04By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-08-20NVD's own last-modified date for this record.