Port 8183ProRemote

TCP/8183 is assigned to ProRemote, registered by Alex Lelievre; no widely documented public deployment is known.

transport
tcp

single transport

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 6,005 · top 17%

Technical Details

what runs on :8183

ProRemote is registered on port :8183 over tcp to Alex Lelievre, assigned August 2009. 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 :8183

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tlpn 'sport = :8183'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :8183

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :8183
another host
nmap -sV -p T:8183 <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 :8183

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

every listening transport is another surface to filter at the edge

security overview

no security notes recorded for :8183 yet

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

ports registered around :8183, by lookups.

portservicerisk
:8243Apache Synapse HTTPS Listenercaution
:8123Polipo Proxycaution
:8200GoToMyPCcaution
:8194Sophos RMScaution
:8222VMware Server UI (Insecure)caution
:8192Sophos RMScaution
:8193Sophos RMScaution
:8201TRIVNETsafe

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • safe13%
  • caution88%

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