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CVE-2017-20233

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-20233 is a firewall filtering vulnerability affecting Hirschmann HiLCOS products, including OpenBAT, BAT450, WLC, and BAT867. This flaw allows IPv4 multicast and broadcast traffic to bypass configured firewall rules when management IP address filtering is disabled. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), it can be exploited by attackers with network access to inject or observe packets, leading to low confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
BeldenHirschmann HiLCOS BAT867
>= 0, <= 9.14.5500-REL, 0CNA affecteddefault unaffected
BeldenHirschmann HiLCOS OpenBAT, BAT450, WLC
>= 0, <= 9.10.5126-REL, >= 0, <= 9.12.5500-RELCNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

5.3MEDIUM

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
ADJACENT
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
LOW
VS Integrity
LOW
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
10.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0020 is in the 13th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

assets.belden.com / m/11a07596f0bf1018/original/Security-Bulletin-IPv4-Multicast-HiLCOS-Layer-2-Firewall-BSECV-2017-03.pdf
vulncheck.com / advisories/hirschmann-hilcos-layer-2-firewall-multicast-broadcast-traffic-bypass