CVE-2023-29552
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Apr 25, 2023
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Reserved
- Apr 7, 2023
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608
- https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp
- https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.html
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks
- https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051
- https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.html
- https://github.com/curesec/slpload
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-29552government-resource
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