Service Location Protocol (SLP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
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.
- Vendor
- IETF
- Product
- Service Location Protocol (SLP)
- CVSS
- 7.5
- EPSS (exploit probability)
- 65.9%
- Status
- kev
- CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01)
- Published
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’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2023-11-08. Required action per 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. Due date: 2023-11-29.
This is an auto-synced KEV catalog record pending a full 0dayNews write-up — see CISA’s KEV catalog and the NVD record linked above for primary sources.