Port 2374Hydra RPC

Port 2374 is assigned to Hydra RPC over TCP.

transport
tcp

single transport

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 5,865 · top 17%

Technical Details

what runs on :2374

Hydra RPC is registered on port :2374 over tcp to Jacob Feisley, assigned January 2009. 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 :2374

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tlpn 'sport = :2374'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :2374

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :2374
another host
nmap -sV -p T:2374 <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 :2374

risk score

1/ 10safe

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

network services averages 2.6 across 1,767 ports — this one sits 1.6 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 :2374 yet

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

the 8 most looked-up other ports in network services — 1,767 ports carry that label.

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • caution100%

0 of 8 encrypted