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.
History

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Cisco
Cisco firepower Threat Defense Software
Vendors & Products Cisco
Cisco firepower Threat Defense Software

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Intrusion Detection Denial of Service Vulnerability
Weaknesses CWE-835
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published:

Updated: 2025-08-14T19:21:06.866Z

Reserved: 2024-10-10T19:15:13.232Z

Link: CVE-2025-20217

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-08-14T18:40:56.503Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-08-14T17:15:35.520

Modified: 2025-08-15T13:12:51.217

Link: CVE-2025-20217

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