CVE-2026-20291

Published: Ott 21, 2026 Last Modified: Ott 21, 2026
ExploitDB:
Other exploit source:
Google Dorks:
HIGH 7,8
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: local
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: low
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: high
Integrity: high
Availability: high

Description

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As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco owned Open Source Snort 3 Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.

The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20291 are related to issues concerning improper privilege management that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Base CWE-269.

269

Improper Privilege Management

Draft
Abstraction: Class Structure: Simple
Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Access Control
Potential Impacts:
Gain Privileges Or Assume Identity
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
Likelihood of Exploit: Medium
View CWE Details
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/Cis…
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/c…