High severity · published Apr 25, 2023
CVE-2023-29552
Service Location Protocol (SLP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
In wildKEV
7.5
CVSS
64%
EPSS
Yes
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)64.0% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildYes
CISA KEVListed Nov 8, 2023
Federal remediation dueNov 29, 2023
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
ESXi · VMware
before 7.0 · source: NVD
LE
Linux Enterprise Server · Suse
11; 12; 12; 15; 15 · source: NVD
MS
Manager Server · Suse
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
SL
Service Location Protocol · Service Location Protocol Project
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
SP
Smi-s Provider · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
SL
Service Location Protocol (SLP) · IETF
All versions, or not specified · source: KEV
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29552
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-29552
CISA KEV catalogue
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
datatracker.ietf.org
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608
www.bitsight.com
https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp
blogs.vmware.com
https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.html
www.cisa.gov
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks
www.suse.com
https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051
curesec.com
https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.html
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