FKIE_CVE-2023-29552

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-04-25 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:50
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608Technical Description
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/curesec/slploadProduct
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slpExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacksThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608Technical Description
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/curesec/slploadProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slpExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacksThird Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-29552US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
netapp smi-s_provider -
suse manager_server -
suse linux_enterprise_server 11
suse linux_enterprise_server 12
suse linux_enterprise_server 12
suse linux_enterprise_server 15
suse linux_enterprise_server 15
vmware esxi *
service_location_protocol_project service_location_protocol -
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