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One spoofed discovery response can therefore insert an inventory entry pointing at any host, including hosts outside the local network, and an application that connects to discovered devices\nwill open its ADS session, including any configured route credentials, to that host.\n\nAdditionally, discovery listeners in both implementations can be disabled by a single malformed datagram:\n- In PLC4Go ADS discovery, a short version block causes a panic that ends the listener for the rest of the discovery call, so legitimate devices answering afterwards are not reported.\n- In PLC4J, the ADS and EtherNet/IP discoverers stop on an unhandled exception from a malformed response.\n- The PLC4J Modbus discoverer can be made to spin indefinitely, consuming a CPU core, by a scanned host that sends a partial response.\n\nExploitation requires the application to invoke the discovery API, which is opt-in, and for the connection redirect, to act on the discovered items.\n\nThis issue affects Apache PLC4X: PLC4Go from 0.11.0 before 1.0.0; PLC4J ADS and Modbus drivers from 0.10.0 before 1.0.0; PLC4J EtherNet/IP driver from 0.11.0 before 1.0.0. 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