Port 5092Magpie Binary

UDP port 5092 is assigned to Magpie Binary, an obscure service registered to Phil Maker with no common deployment documented.

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 5,377 · top 18%

Technical Details

what runs on :5092

Magpie Binary is registered on port :5092 over udp to Phil Maker, assigned June 2008. 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 :5092

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -ulpn 'sport = :5092'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :5092

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :5092
another host
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:5092 <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 :5092

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 :5092 yet

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

ports registered around :5092, by lookups.

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • caution100%

0 of 8 encrypted