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CVE-2023-29552

HIGHCISA KEV

7.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published4/25/2023

Last Modified10/31/2025

Sourcekev

Honeypot Sightings0

CISA KEV

VendorIETF

ProductService Location Protocol (SLP)

Vulnerability NameService Location Protocol (SLP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

KEV Date Added2023-11-08

Remediation Due Date2023-11-29

Ransomware UseUnknown

Affected Products

netapp:smi-s_providerservice_location_protocol_project:service_location_protocolsuse:linux_enterprise_serversuse:manager_servervmware:esxi

References

https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/curesec/slpload(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051(cve@mitre.org)

https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/curesec/slpload(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-29552(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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