CVE-2023-29552
highpriority · act · 90KEV · exploitedEPSS 0.640 · 99 %ileEURUUSadded 2023-11-08remediate by 2023-11-29
required action Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or disable SLP service or port 427/UDP on all systems running on untrusted networks, including those directly connected to the Internet.
EPSS · scored 2026-10-21
Service Location Protocol (SLP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
The Service Location Protocol (SLP, RFC 2608) allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to register arbitrary services. This could allow the attacker to use spoofed UDP traffic to conduct a denial-of-service attack with a significant amplification factor.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
ssvc
A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.
weaknesses
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affected products (17)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
- service location protocol project service location protocolall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:service_location_protocol_project:service_location_protocol:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
also known as (4)
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sources
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references (28)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-29552cnnvd
- https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.htmlcnnvd
- https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.htmlcnnvd
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-29552/cnnvd
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608cnnvd
- https://github.com/curesec/slploadcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29552cnnvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/cnnvd
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