Port 62ACA Services

ACA Services is assigned to TCP and UDP port 62, with little public deployment information.

transport
tcp · udp

2 transports registered

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 4,608 · top 22%

Technical Details

what runs on :62

ACA Services is registered on port :62 over tcp and udp to E Wald. 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 :62

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :62'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :62

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :62
another host
nmap -sV -p T:62 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:62 <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 :62

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 :62 yet

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

ports registered around :62, by lookups.

portservicerisk
:80HTTPcaution
:23Telnetcaution
:83MIT ML Devicecaution
:81Torpark Onion Routingcaution
:22SSHcaution
:109POP2caution
:42NameServer (ARPA Hostname)caution
:53DNSsafe

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • safe13%
  • caution88%

1 of 8 encrypted