Cisco Security Advisory - Multiple Cisco Products Snort Modbus Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Multiple Cisco Products Snort Modbus Denial of Service Vulnerability

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Cisco&nbsp;has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.</p>
<p>This advisory is available at the following link:<br>
<a href="https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort-dos-9D3hJLuj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort-dos-9D3hJLuj</a></p>

     
         
Security Impact Rating:  High
   
   
       
CVE: CVE-2022-20685
Source: Multiple Cisco Products Snort Modbus Denial of Service Vulnerability