Search
Find a vulnerability
Search criteria
ⓘ
Use this form to refine search results.
Full-text search supports keyword queries with ranking and filtering.
You can combine vendor, product, and sources to narrow results.
Enable “Apply ordering” to sort by date instead of relevance.
1 vulnerability by service_location_protocol_project
CVE-2023-29552 (GCVE-0-2023-29552)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:05Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: active
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
9 references
{
"containers": {
"adp": [
{
"providerMetadata": {
"dateUpdated": "2024-08-02T14:14:38.816Z",
"orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"shortName": "CVE"
},
"references": [
{
"tags": [
"x_transferred"
],
"url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608"
},
{
"tags": [
"x_transferred"
],
"url": "https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp"
},
{
"tags": [
"x_transferred"
],
"url": "https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.html"
},
{
"tags": [
"x_transferred"
],
"url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks"
},
{
"tags": [
"x_transferred"
],
"url": "https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051"
},
{
"tags": [
"x_transferred"
],
"url": "https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.html"
},
{
"tags": [
"x_transferred"
],
"url": "https://github.com/curesec/slpload"
},
{
"tags": [
"x_transferred"
],
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/"
}
],
"title": "CVE Program Container"
},
{
"metrics": [
{
"cvssV3_1": {
"attackComplexity": "LOW",
"attackVector": "NETWORK",
"availabilityImpact": "HIGH",
"baseScore": 7.5,
"baseSeverity": "HIGH",
"confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
"integrityImpact": "NONE",
"privilegesRequired": "NONE",
"scope": "UNCHANGED",
"userInteraction": "NONE",
"vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"version": "3.1"
}
},
{
"other": {
"content": {
"id": "CVE-2023-29552",
"options": [
{
"Exploitation": "active"
},
{
"Automatable": "yes"
},
{
"Technical Impact": "partial"
}
],
"role": "CISA Coordinator",
"timestamp": "2025-01-28T21:15:30.516372Z",
"version": "2.0.3"
},
"type": "ssvc"
}
},
{
"other": {
"content": {
"dateAdded": "2023-11-08",
"reference": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-29552"
},
"type": "kev"
}
}
],
"problemTypes": [
{
"descriptions": [
{
"description": "CWE-noinfo Not enough information",
"lang": "en",
"type": "CWE"
}
]
}
],
"providerMetadata": {
"dateUpdated": "2025-10-21T23:05:48.255Z",
"orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0",
"shortName": "CISA-ADP"
},
"references": [
{
"tags": [
"government-resource"
],
"url": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-29552"
}
],
"timeline": [
{
"lang": "en",
"time": "2023-11-08T00:00:00.000Z",
"value": "CVE-2023-29552 added to CISA KEV"
}
],
"title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment"
}
],
"cna": {
"affected": [
{
"product": "n/a",
"vendor": "n/a",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "n/a"
}
]
}
],
"descriptions": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "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."
}
],
"problemTypes": [
{
"descriptions": [
{
"description": "n/a",
"lang": "en",
"type": "text"
}
]
}
],
"providerMetadata": {
"dateUpdated": "2023-04-26T21:06:12.748Z",
"orgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca",
"shortName": "mitre"
},
"references": [
{
"url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608"
},
{
"url": "https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp"
},
{
"url": "https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.html"
},
{
"url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks"
},
{
"url": "https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051"
},
{
"url": "https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.html"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/curesec/slpload"
},
{
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/"
}
]
}
},
"cveMetadata": {
"assignerOrgId": "8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca",
"assignerShortName": "mitre",
"cveId": "CVE-2023-29552",
"datePublished": "2023-04-25T00:00:00.000Z",
"dateReserved": "2023-04-07T00:00:00.000Z",
"dateUpdated": "2025-10-21T23:05:48.255Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
},
"dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
"dataVersion": "5.1"
}