Port 6160Emerson Extensible Control and Management Protocol Data

UDP port 6160 is assigned to data for Emerson's Extensible Control and Management Protocol (ECMP).

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 5,645 · top 18%

also known as ecmp-data, ecmp, Emerson Extensible Control and Management Protocol

Technical Details

what runs on :6160

Emerson Extensible Control and Management Protocol Data is registered on port :6160 over udp to Bryce Beeston, assigned June 2011. 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 :6160

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -ulpn 'sport = :6160'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :6160

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :6160
another host
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:6160 <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 :6160

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 :6160 yet

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

ports registered around :6160, by lookups.

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • caution100%

0 of 8 encrypted