🛡️ CVE-2023-20246
🟡 CVSS 5.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-290 NVD
5.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in Snort access control policies that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the configured policies on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to a logic error that occurs when the access control policies are being populated. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by establishing a connection to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured access control rules on the affected system.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-290
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-01
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
firepower-threat-defense 7.0.0 7.3.1.1
ios-xe 17.12 17.12.2
snort 3.0.0 3.1.57.0

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