A vulnerability was found in Cisco Open Source Snort, FirePOWER, Firepower Threat Defense Software and IOS XE. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component HTTP Intrusion Prevention System Rule. The manipulation leads to authentication bypass by spoofing.

The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-20363. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no exploit available.

It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.