# CVE-2023-29552

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.

- Page: https://www.vulneraibility.com/cve/CVE-2023-29552
- CVSS: 7.5
- Known exploited: yes, in CISA KEV since 2023-11-08; CISA due date 2023-11-29
- EPSS: 63.98% (percentile 99.2)
- CISA SSVC: exploitation active, automatable yes, technical impact partial (assessed 2025-01-28)
- Published: 2023-04-25

## Affected

- netapp:smi-s_provider
- suse:manager_server
- suse:linux_enterprise_server
- vmware:esxi
- service_location_protocol_project:service_location_protocol

## References

- [other] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608
- [other] https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp
- [other] https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.html
- [other] https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks
- [other] https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051
- [other] https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.html
- [other] https://github.com/curesec/slpload
- [other] https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001/
- [other] https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-29552

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