Port 20012Samsung Interdevice Interaction Discovery

UDP port 20012 is assigned to Samsung Interdevice Interaction discovery; common deployment and protocol behavior are not established.

transport
udp

single transport

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 6,386 · top 16%

also known as ss-idi-disc

Technical Details

what runs on :20012

Samsung Interdevice Interaction Discovery is registered on port :20012 over udp to Hong Jungkih. 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 :20012

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -ulpn 'sport = :20012'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :20012

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :20012
another host
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:20012 <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 :20012

risk score

1/ 10safe

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

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

udp

udp is connectionless — source addresses are trivially spoofed and it is a reflection favourite

security overview

no security notes recorded for :20012 yet

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

ports registered around :20012, by lookups.

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • safe25%
  • caution50%
  • risk25%

1 of 8 encrypted