Vulnerability detail

Vendor

VMware

Product

Service Location Protocol (SLP)

Published

Apr 25, 2023

EPSS

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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.

SSVC decision points

Exploitation

active

Automatable

Yes

Technical impact

partial

References

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