CISA KEV entry

CVE-2023-29552Service Location Protocol (SLP) Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

IETF Service Location Protocol (SLP). Added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue on 8 November 2023.

Data status: a source is stale

Last synced CISA catalogue version 2026.11.04 (released 4 November 2026) 1,768 entries Updated manually

Date added
2023-11-08
Federal due date
2023-11-29 21 days after it was added; passed at the sync of 2026-11-05
Known ransomware use
Unknown
Forensic triage (BOD 26-04)
No
CVSS
7.5 High CVSS 3.1, scored by nvd@nist.gov
EPSS
63.97% percentile 99.2, scored 2026-11-04
CISA SSVC
Exploitation active, automatable yes, technical impact partial
NVD status
Analyzed published 2023-04-25, 197 days before the KEV listing

BOD 26-04 remediation window

With CISA's SSVC answers for this CVE (automatable: yes, technical impact: partial), BOD 26-04 Table 1 gives 3 days on a publicly exposed asset (row 2) and 14 days on an asset that is not publicly exposed (row 10) S06. The catalogue due date, 21 days after the date added, was set before BOD 26-04 took effect on 10 June 2026 S06. The directive binds US federal civilian executive branch agencies only.

What CISA says

Short description

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.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or disable SLP service or port 427/UDP on all systems running on untrusted networks, including those directly connected to the Internet.

Notes

This vulnerability affects a common open-source component, third-party library, or a protocol used by different products. Please check with specific vendors for information on the patching status. For more information please see https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp and https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks.; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29552

CWE in the catalogue

Not provided by source

NVD details

CWE (NVD)
NVD-CWE-noinfo by nvd@nist.gov
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS versions in NVD
V31
Last modified in NVD
2026-06-17T05:50:32.263

Where each value comes from

Source and fetch time of every field on this page
FieldSourceFetched, UTCState
Catalogue fieldsCISA KEV JSON, version 2026.11.042026-11-05 11:38current
NVD published, status, CVSS, CWE, vendor linksNVD CVE API 2.0; CVSS: NVD (nvd@nist.gov)2026-11-03 12:37current at 2026-11-05 11:38
EPSSFIRST EPSS API, scores of 2026-11-042026-11-05 11:38current
CISA SSVCCISA ADP (via NVD), record of 2025-01-282026-11-03 12:37current

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