CVE-2017-20233 (GCVE-0-2017-20233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 22:47 – Updated: 2026-05-25 23:40
VLAI
Title
Hirschmann HiLCOS Layer-2 Firewall Multicast Broadcast Traffic Bypass
Summary
Hirschmann HiLCOS products OpenBAT, BAT450, WLC, BAT867 contains a firewall filtering vulnerability that fails to correctly filter IPv4 multicast and broadcast traffic when management IP address filtering is disabled, allowing configured filter rules to be bypassed. Attackers with network access can inject or observe multicast and broadcast packets that should have been blocked by the firewall.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper access control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Belden Hirschmann HiLCOS OpenBAT, BAT450, WLC Affected: 0 , ≤ 9.10.5126-REL (semver)
Affected: 0 , ≤ 9.12.5500-REL (semver)
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Belden Hirschmann HiLCOS BAT867 Affected: 0 , ≤ 9.14.5500-REL (semver)
Affected: 0 (semver)
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Date Public
2017-05-08 00:00
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