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Sun Service Tags

Sun/Oracle Service Tags agent — answers with the machine's serial number and hardware inventory.

TCP UDP IANA registry

Description

IANA registers 6481 as servicetags, assigned to Peter Schow at Sun. The Service Tags agent shipped with Solaris and several Sun/Oracle products to support asset discovery, and it answers unauthenticated queries with system details: OS release, hostname, architecture, platform, manufacturer, serial number, hostid, RAM, and CPU counts. Nmap ships a servicetags NSE script that does exactly this over UDP 6481. Finding it open means an older Solaris or Sun-derived stack that still has the discovery listener enabled.

Exposed to the internet?

Do not expose

It hands out serial numbers, hostids, and a full hardware profile with no authentication — precise inventory data for an attacker planning the next step. Disable the agent or firewall it to the asset-management server.

Check it yourself

$ nmap -sU -p 6481 --script=servicetags TARGET

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