EDIT: plex released a fix to prevent this. Greetings to whom it may concern: Netscout (Arbor) has just published a blog post in which they show / explain / claim how SSDP on the WAN port of a Plex Media Server that uses uPNP/NAT-PNP to expose its port to the internet, can be used to reflect+ampli…

[image] sojab0on: i know there is a fix for this issue keeping pms updated to newest and indeed not setting things trough UPNP will help allot. If your server is not connected directly to the open internet, there is 0 need for a fix. Even the UPnP request of Plex doesn’t create a forwarding o…

[FIX] PMS leveraged for amplified dDoS attack (SSDP)

Plex Media Server

Papuass February 5, 2021, 12:56pm 3

This got covered in ArsTechnica

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[FIX] PMS leveraged for amplified dDoS attack (SSDP)

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