Port 8191Limner Pressure

Limner Pressure is an obscure TCP service assignment with no established public usage.

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 :8191

Limner Pressure is registered on port :8191 over tcp to Aaron Kleinsteiber, assigned January 2014. 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 :8191

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tlpn 'sport = :8191'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :8191

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :8191
another host
nmap -sV -p T:8191 <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 :8191

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 :8191 yet

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

ports registered around :8191, by lookups.

portservicerisk
:8243Apache Synapse HTTPS Listenercaution
:8200GoToMyPCcaution
:8194Sophos RMScaution
:8222VMware Server UI (Insecure)caution
:8192Sophos RMScaution
:8193Sophos RMScaution
:8201TRIVNETsafe
:8207LM SServersafe

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • safe25%
  • caution75%

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