Port 4882SOCP Control Protocol
UDP/4882 is assigned to the SOCP Control Protocol, a little-documented service with no established common deployment.
- transport
- udp
- in transit
- cleartext
- assignment
- official
- risk
- 1/10
- lookups
- 0
single transport
payload readable on path
registered with iana
safe
rank 993 of 5,312 · top 19%
Technical Details
what runs on :4882SOCP Control Protocol is registered on port :4882 over udp to Joe Haver, assigned May 2010. 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 :4882
# linux
sudo ss -ulpn 'sport = :4882'
# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :4882
# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :4882sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:4882 <host>run it? the handshake, the implementations you meet in the wild and the flags that matter come from the engineers who do.
add technical detailsSecurity Information
exposure of :4882risk 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 :4882 yet
known exploits, hardening advice, what a compromise looks like — suggest an edit if you know its exposure.
Related Ports
ports registered around :4882, by lookups.
| port | service | risk | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| :4899 | Radmin Remote Administration | TCPUDP | Security | safe | 28.3k |
| :4840 | OPC UA TCP | TCPUDP | Network Services | caution | 26.6k |
| :4843 | OPC UA over TLS/SSL | TCPUDPtls | Security | caution | 24.6k |
| :4847 | Quadrion WebFresh | TCPUDP | Web Services | caution | 7.2k |
| :4894 | LysKOM | TCPUDP | Voice and Chat | caution | 4.1k |
| :4839 | varadero-2 | TCPUDP | — | safe | 0 |
| :4840 | OPC UA PubSub over UDP | UDP | Network Services | caution | 0 |
| :4838 | Varadero-1 | TCPUDP | — | safe | 0 |
risk mix of the 8 listed
- safe38%
- caution63%
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