CVE-2025-20217 – Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Snort 3 Packet Inspection Denial of Service

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CVE-2025-20217 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 14, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A vulnerability in the packet inspection functionality of the Snort 3 Detection Engine of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device.

    This vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of traffic that is inspected by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted traffic through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to enter an infinite loop while inspecting traffic, resulting in a DoS condition. The system watchdog will restart the Snort process automatically.

    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-835
    Added Reference https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-dos-SvKhtjgt
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