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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Service Location Protocol (SLP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2023-11-08
Remediation due
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.

CISA notes
This vulnerability affects a common open-source component, third-party library, or a protocol used by different products. Please check with specific vendors for information on the patching status. For more information please see https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp and https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks.; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29552

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableyes
Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
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