CVE-2023-29552
Service Location Protocol (SLP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
IETF · Service Location Protocol (SLP)
Vulnerability details
The Service Location Protocol (SLP) contains a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to register services and use spoofed UDP traffic to conduct a denial-of-service (DoS) attack with a significant amplification factor.
Added to CISA KEV: 2023-11-08
Ransomware campaign use: Unknown
CISA due date: 2023-11-29
Defensive guidance from CISA
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.
This is the source's required-action field, not an independently validated patch procedure. Refer to the vendor for exact affected versions and fixes.
Source catalog date: 2026-11-06T19:44:45.1797Z · Last retrieved: 2026-11-06 21:02:26 UTC