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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-20179"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-21T16:12:29.897Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-22T19:11:03.271Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-20179"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-20179.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20179"
title: "Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation Denial of Service Vulnerabilities"
summary: "Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 parses GRE packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE packet to a targeted device to be parsed by Snort. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition."
affected: 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