Port 10548Apple Document Sharing Service

A little-documented Apple document-sharing service assigned to TCP port 10548; no common public-facing listener is established.

inFile Transfer

transport: tcp
in transit: cleartext
assignment: official
risk: 1/10
lookups: 0

also known as serverdocs

Technical Details

what runs on :10548

Apple Document Sharing Service is registered on port :10548 over tcp to Apple Inc 3, assigned September 2015. We don't have a technical write-up for it beyond the IANA registry entry.

In nmap's internet-wide scan data this port is never observed open, so if it's open on your network it's more likely a custom or misconfigured service than the registered one.

find what's listening on :10548

this machine

# linux
sudo ss -tlpn 'sport = :10548'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :10548

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :10548

another host

nmap -sV -p T:10548 <host>

run it? the handshake, the implementations you meet in the wild and the flags that matter come from the engineers who do.

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Security Information

exposure of :10548

risk score

1/ 10safe

routine exposure. this port is rarely the way in on its own — keep it patched and logged and move on.

file transfer averages 3.3 across 204 ports — this one sits 2.3 below.

in transit

cleartext

credentials and payloads are readable by anyone on path

assignment

official

registered with iana for this service — scanners fingerprint it by number

reachable over

tcp

every listening transport is another surface to filter at the edge

security overview

no security notes recorded for :10548 yet

known exploits, hardening advice, what a compromise looks like — suggest an edit if you know its exposure.

Record

iana registry entry

port: :10548
service: Apple Document Sharing Service
transport: TCP
encryption: cleartext
assignment: iana registered
risk: 1/10safe
category: File Transfer
usage: IANA assigns TCP port 10548 to Apple’s Document Sharing Service. Its typical deployment and wire protocol are not established well enough to identify a common listener.
lookups: 0rank 993
added: 2026-10-16
updated: 2026-10-16
references: IANA service name registry — port 10548

Something wrong?

This record is maintained by the engineers who use port 10548. Every field on it is editable — change what's wrong, say how you know, and a reviewer publishes it, usually within a minute. Last touched 2026-10-16.

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Related Ports

all 204 in file transfer →

the 8 most looked-up other ports in file transfer — 204 ports carry that label.

port	service	proto	category	risk	views
:9080	Groove RPC	TCPUDP	Web Services	caution	70.8k
:17500	Dropbox LAN Sync	TCPUDP	File Transfer	caution	43.7k
:548	Apple Filing Protocol	TCP	File Transfer	caution	36.8k
:7000	Vuze HTTPS Tracker	TCPtls	Security	caution	28.9k
:1337	PowerFolder P2P	TCP	Security	caution	27.1k
:9001	SharePoint Authoring		Web Services	caution	26.3k
:8080	FilePhile Relay	UDP	File Transfer	caution	25.6k
:1337	WASTE Encrypted Sharing	TCP	Security	caution	22.9k

risk mix of the 8 listed

caution100%

1 of 8 encrypted

Port :10548Apple Document Sharing Service

Technical Details

Security Information

Related Ports

Port 10548Apple Document Sharing Service