CVE-2023-29552

unknown KEV
Published 2023-11-08 ยท Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.5

Description

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.

CISA KEV

Vendor
IETF
Product
Service Location Protocol (SLP)
Due date
2023-11-29

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27
{Vendor advisory: cisa-kev โ€” 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}

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.