high · 7.8

Open Source Snort 3 Control Channel Socket Aribitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2026-76524 · published 21 Oct 2026

How serious is it

  • Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
  • No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
  • Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  • No public exploit in Exploit-DB.

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Who is affected

  • Cisco Cisco Open Source Snort3: 3.12.2.0, 3.1.2.0, 3.1.3.0, 3.1.4.0

How to check

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How to fix

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  1. Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
  2. If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.

The advisory

A vulnerability in the control channel socket implementation of Open Source Snort 3 could allow an authenticated, local attacker with low privileges to execute arbitrary commands as the Snort 3 process user. This vulnerability is due to a lack of authentication when a local user connects to the Snort control channel socket. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to the Snort 3 control channel socket as a local user. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as well as read and write Snort 3 process memory.

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References

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