CVE-2017-20233CWE-284

Hirschmann HiLCOS Layer-2 Firewall Multicast Broadcast Traffic Bypass

Medium · published April 3, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00204 · 9.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
Published
2026-04-03T22:47Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 APR 22:47Z
    Hirschmann HiLCOS Layer-2 Firewall Multicast Broadcast Traffic Bypass
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