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 Metrics
- 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 Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- NETAPP
- Published
- 4/25/2023
- Last Modified
- 10/31/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
netapp : smi-s_providersuse : manager_serversuse : linux_enterprise_serversuse : linux_enterprise_serversuse : linux_enterprise_serversuse : linux_enterprise_serversuse : linux_enterprise_servervmware : esxiservice_location_protocol_project : service_location_protocol
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