# CVE-2017-11401: An issue has been discovered on the Belden Hirschmann Tofino Xenon Security Appliance before 03.2.00.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-11-20 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue has been discovered on the Belden Hirschmann Tofino Xenon Security Appliance before 03.2.00. Improper handling of the mbap.length field of ModBus packets in the ModBus DPI filter allows an attacker to send malformed/crafted packets to a protected asset, bypassing function code filtering.

## What to do

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## References

- https://www.belden.com/hubfs/support/security/bulletins/Belden-Security-Bulletin-BSECV-2017-14-1v1-1.pdf
- https://github.com/airbus-seclab/security-advisories/blob/master/belden/tofino.txt

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