CVE-2023-29552
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
7.5CVSS HIGH ● exploited
🔴 Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2023-11-08. US federal agencies must patch by 2023-11-29.
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)92%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.htmlAdvisory
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608
- https://github.com/curesec/slpload
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacksAdvisory
- https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051Advisory
- https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.htmlAdvisory
- https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slpAdvisory