SB2026030501 - Multiple DoS vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Cisco FTD
Published: March 5, 2026
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Improper error handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-20068)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper error handling when parsing remote procedure call (RPC) data. A remote attacker can send specially crafted RPC packets through an established connection to be parsed by Snort 3 and perform a denial of service attack.
2) Improper error handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-20067)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper error handling when parsing the Multicast DNS fields of the HTTP header. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP packets through an established connection to be parsed by Snort 3 and perform a denial of service attack.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-20066)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the JSTokenizer normalization logic when the HTTP inspection normalizes JavaScript. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP packets through an established connection that is parsed by Snort 3 and perform a denial of service attack.
4) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-20005)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient parsing of the SSL handshake ingress packets by the Snort 3 Detection Engine. A remote attacker can send specially crafted SSL handshake packets to the system and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort3-multi-dos-XFWkWSwz
- https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwq01529
- https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwq01530
- https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwq23374
- https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwn65473
- https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwp99280