CVE-2026-76489 Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic File Processing Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-76489?
CVE-2026-76489 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Open Source Snort3, published on 21 Oct 2026.
Official description
Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the memory management implementation of Snort 3 that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection. This vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 processes files, which could cause unreleased memory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of files to be processed. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.
Weakness: CWE-401
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-76489?
How do I fix CVE-2026-76489?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-76489 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-76489 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-76489 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4m4m-399q-8257.