CVE-2023-29552 - Abuse of the Service Location Protocol May Lead to DoS Attacks

Brocade Fabric OS

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22195

19 May 2023

19 May 2023

CLOSED

LOW

Base Score: 7.5 HIGH - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NA

CVE-2023-29552

Brocade Security Advisory ID

BSA-2023-2259

Component

SLP Protocol

 

 

Summary

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. More at:

  • https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/04/25/abuse-service-location-protocol-may-lead-dos-attacks
  • https://www.bitsight.com/blog/new-high-severity-vulnerability-cve-2023-29552-discovered-service-location-protocol-slp

Products Confirmed Not Affected

No Brocade Fibre Channel Products from Broadcom products are known to be affected by this vulnerability.

Revision History

Version

Change

Date

1.0

Initial Publication

May 19, 2023

 

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