CISA-confirmed known exploited vulnerability

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

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