Port 8378Cruise CONFIG

An obscure IANA assignment for Cruise CONFIG, with no established commonly deployed service known on TCP or UDP 8378.

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 6,030 · top 16%

Technical Details

what runs on :8378

Cruise CONFIG is registered on port :8378 over tcp and udp to Steve Husak. 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 :8378

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :8378'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :8378

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :8378
another host
nmap -sV -p T:8378 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:8378 <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 :8378

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 :8378 yet

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

ports registered around :8378, by lookups.

portservicerisk
:8442CyBro A-buscaution
:8333VMware Server UI (Secure)caution
:8400Commvault CVPcaution
:8403admindsafe
:8401sabarsdsafe
:8383M2M Servicessafe
:8321Thin(ium) Network Protocolsafe
:8402abarsdsafe

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • safe63%
  • caution38%

0 of 8 encrypted