Snort vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

Snort has 20 published vulnerabilities across 1 product in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Snort, with 20. If you run Snort software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Snort products have the most vulnerabilities?

Snort leads with 20 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

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Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Snort vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Snort's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Snort flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 79%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the DCE/RPC preprocessor in Snort before 2.6.1.3, and 2.7 before beta 2; and Sourcefire Intrusion Sensor; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted SMB traffic.

    CVSS10.0Published20 Feb 2007
  2. 39%

    Snort before 2.8.5.1, when the -v option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted IPv6 packet that uses the (1) TCP or (2) ICMP protocol.

    CVSS4.3Published28 Oct 2009
  3. 12%

    Buffer overflow in the RPC preprocessor for Snort 1.8 and 1.9.x before 1.9.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via fragmented RPC packets.

    CVSS10.0Published7 Mar 2003
  4. 5.9%

    The frag3 preprocessor in Snort 2.6.1.1, 2.6.1.2, and 2.7.0 beta, when configured for inline use on Linux without the ip_conntrack module loaded, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation...

    CVSS7.1Published10 Mar 2007
  5. 4.4%

    Untrusted search path vulnerability in Snort 2.9.7.0-WIN32 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse tcapi.dll that is located in the same folder on a...

    CVSS8.8Published23 Jan 2017
  6. 2.5%

    Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the way the Snort detection engine processes ICMP traffic that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition...

    CVSS7.5Published27 Oct 2021
  7. 2.4%

    Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Snort before 2.6.1, during predicate evaluation in rule matching for certain rules, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and detection outage)...

    CVSS5.0Published16 Jan 2007
  8. 2.4%

    Integer underflow in the DecodeGRE function in src/decode.c in Snort 2.6.1.2 allows remote attackers to trigger dereferencing of certain memory locations via crafted GRE packets, which may cause corruption of log...

    CVSS7.8Published16 Jan 2007
  9. 2.3%

    Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort detection engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured File Policy for HTTP.

    CVSS5.8Published21 Oct 2020
Every product

All Snort products we track.

1 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 20 published vulnerabilities across 1 product and 42 versions from Snort.

None of Snort's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Snort, with 20 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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