Port 5968MPP Policy v5

MPP Policy v5 traffic uses TCP or UDP port 5968.

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

also known as mppolicy-v5

Technical Details

what runs on :5968

MPP Policy v5 is registered on port :5968 over tcp and udp to Yutaka Ono. 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 found open rarely. What's listening is often not the registered service, so check before you assume.

find what's listening on :5968

this machine

# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :5968'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :5968

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :5968

another host

nmap -sV -p T:5968 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:5968 <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 details

Security Information

exposure of :5968

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

tcp · udp

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

security overview

no security notes recorded for :5968 yet

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

Record

iana registry entry

port: :5968
service: MPP Policy v5
transport: TCPUDP
encryption: cleartext
assignment: iana registered
risk: 1/10safe
category: uncategorised
usage: Port 5968 is assigned to the service name mppolicy-v5 over TCP and UDP. The assignment is registered to Yutaka Ono, but the registry provides no further protocol or deployment details.
lookups: 0rank 993
added: 2026-09-10
updated: 2026-09-10
references: IANA service name registry — port 5968

Something wrong?

This record is maintained by the engineers who use port 5968. 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 2026-09-10.

01edit any field on a page of its own
02a model checks it for accuracy and spam
03clean and confident goes live immediately

edit this record →back to the registry

Related Ports

browse categories →

ports registered around :5968, by lookups.

port	service	proto	category	risk	views
:5938	TeamViewer	TCPUDP	Remote Access	caution	65.0k
:6005	BMC Control-M Server	TCP	System	caution	27.1k
:6005	Camfrog Chat	TCP	Voice and Chat	caution	25.2k
:6000	X11 Protocol	TCP	Remote Access	caution	13.1k
:6001	X11 Display Manager	UDP	Remote Access	caution	12.9k
:5912	Tidal Scheduler Agent	TCP	System	caution	8.5k
:5984	CouchDB	TCPUDP	Databases	caution	8.2k
:5999	CVSup	TCP	File Transfer	caution	4.1k

risk mix of the 8 listed

caution100%

0 of 8 encrypted

Port :5968MPP Policy v5

Technical Details

Security Information

Related Ports

Port 5968MPP Policy v5