CVE-2023-29552

Service Location Protocol (SLP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

Yes

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

NVD
CISA

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.

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.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv3.1 7.5

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-04-07 CVE Reserved
2023-04-25 CVE Published
2023-11-08 Exploited in Wild
2023-11-29 KEV Due Date
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2024-08-02 First Exploit
2024-10-05 EPSS Updated

CWE

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/04/vmware-response-to-cve-2023-29552-reflective-denial-of-service-dos-amplification-vulnerability-in-slp.html	Third Party Advisory
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2608	Technical Description
https://github.com/curesec/slpload	Product
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230426-0001	Third Party Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks	Third Party Advisory
https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000021051	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
https://curesec.com/blog/article/CVE-2023-29552-Service-Location-Protocol-Denial-of-Service-Amplification-Attack-212.html	2024-08-02
https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp	2024-08-02

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Netapp Search vendor "Netapp"		Smi-s Provider Search vendor "Netapp" for product "Smi-s Provider"				-		-		Affected
Suse Search vendor "Suse"		Manager Server Search vendor "Suse" for product "Manager Server"				-		-		Affected
Suse Search vendor "Suse"		Linux Enterprise Server Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server"				11 Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server" and version "11"		-		Affected
Suse Search vendor "Suse"		Linux Enterprise Server Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server"				12 Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server" and version "12"		-		Affected
Suse Search vendor "Suse"		Linux Enterprise Server Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server"				12 Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server" and version "12"		sap		Affected
Suse Search vendor "Suse"		Linux Enterprise Server Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server"				15 Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server" and version "15"		-		Affected
Suse Search vendor "Suse"		Linux Enterprise Server Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server"				15 Search vendor "Suse" for product "Linux Enterprise Server" and version "15"		sap		Affected
Vmware Search vendor "Vmware"		Esxi Search vendor "Vmware" for product "Esxi"				< 7.0 Search vendor "Vmware" for product "Esxi" and version " < 7.0"		-		Affected
Service Location Protocol Project Search vendor "Service Location Protocol Project"		Service Location Protocol Search vendor "Service Location Protocol Project" for product "Service Location Protocol"				-		-		Affected