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CVE-2017-20233

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…

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.20%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 4.0
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS
0.20% probability · 10th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-284
Source
disclosure@vulncheck.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 0.20%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 0.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.