CVE-2022-20685

Multiple Cisco Products Snort Modbus Denial of Service Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.5
EPSS
EPSS 1.46 % · percentile 73 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the Modbus preprocessor of the Snort detection engine could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to an integer overflow while processing Modbus traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted Modbus traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort process to hang, causing traffic inspection to stop.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Cyber Visionaffected 3.0.0 ; affected 3.0.2 ; affected 3.0.3 ; affected 3.0.1 ; affected 3.1.0 ; affected 3.0.4
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwareaffected 6.2.3.14 ; affected 6.4.0.1 ; affected 6.2.3.7 ; affected 6.2.3 ; affected 6.4.0.2 ; affected 6.2.3.9
Cisco · Cisco UTD SNORT IPS Engine Softwareaffected 3.17.1S ; affected 16.12.3 ; affected Fuji-16.9.5 ; affected 16.12.4 ; affected 17.3.1a ; affected 16.6.6

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD