Common Ports Cheat Sheet: The

Complete List of Ports & Protocols

Common Ports and Protocols Cheat Sheet

The following tables cover services (and malware) that use common TCP ports and some
UDP or SCTP ports.

Well-known/System Ports: 0 – 1023

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 Port number Service name Transport Description
protocol
7 Echo TCP, UDP Echo service
19 CHARGEN TCP, UDP Character Generator Protocol, has
severe vulnerabilities and thus is
rarely used nowadays
20 FTP-data TCP, SCTP File Transfer Protocol data transfer
21 FTP TCP, UDP, File Transfer Protocol command
SCTP control
22 SSH/SCP/SFT TCP, UDP, Secure Shell, secure logins, file
P SCTP transfers (scp, sftp), and port
forwarding
23 Telnet TCP Telnet protocol, for unencrypted text
communications
25 SMTP TCP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, used
for email routing between mail servers
42 WINS TCP, UDP Microsoft Windows Internet Name
Replication Service, vulnerable to attacks on a
local network
43 WHOIS TCP, UDP Whois service, provides domain-level
information
49 TACACS UDP; can also Terminal Access Controller Access-
use TCP but Control System, provides remote
not necessarily authentication and related services for
on port 49 network access
53 DNS TCP, UDP Domain Name System name resolver
67 DHCP/BOOTP UDP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
and its predecessor Bootstrap
\ Protocol Server; server port
68 DHCP/BOOTP UDP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
and its predecessor Bootstrap
Protocol Server; client port
69 TFTP UDP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
70 Gopher TCP Gopher is a communication protocol
for distributing, searching, and
retrieving documents in Internet
Protocol (IP) networks
79 Finger TCP Name/Finger protocol and Finger user
information protocol, for retrieving and
manipulating user information
80 HTTP TCP, UDP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
SCTP uses TCP in versions 1.x and 2.
HTTP/3 uses QUIC, a transport
protocol on top of UDP
88 Kerberos TCP, UDP Network authentication system
102 Microsoft TCP Microsoft Exchange ISO Transport
Exchange Service Access Point (TSAP) Class 0
ISO-TSAP protocol
110 POP3 TCP Post Office Protocol, version 3
(POP3)
113 Ident TCP Identification Protocol, for identifying
the user of a particular TCP
connection
 119 NNTP TCP Network News Transfer Protocol
(Usenet)
123 NTP UDP Network Time Protocol
135 Microsoft RPC TCP, UDP Microsoft Remote Procedure Call
EPMAP (RPC) Endpoint Mapper (EPMAP)
service, for remote system access
and management
137 NetBIOS-ns TCP, UDP NetBIOS Name Service, used for
name registration and resolution
138 NetBIOS-dgm TCP, UDP NetBIOS Datagram Service, used for
providing access to shared resources
139 NetBIOS-ssn TCP, UDP NetBIOS Session Service
143 IMAP TCP, UDP Internet Message Access Protocol
(IMAP), management of electronic
mail messages on a server
161 SNMP-agents UDP Simple network management
(unencrypted) protocol; agents communicate on this
port
162 SNMP-trap UDP Simple network management
(unencrypted) protocol; listens for asynchronous
traps
177 XDMCP UDP X Display Manager Control Protocol
179 BGP TCP Border Gateway Protocol
194 IRC UDP Internet Relay Chat
201 AppleTalk TCP, UDP AppleTalk Routing Maintenance.
Trojan horses and computer viruses
have used UDP port 201.
264 BGMP TCP, UDP Border Gateway Multicast Protocol
\ 318 TSP TCP, UDP Time Stamp Protocol
381 HP Openview TCP, UDP HP performance data collector
383 HP Openview TCP, UDP HP data alarm manager
389 LDAP TCP, UDP Lightweight directory access protocol
411 (Multiple uses) TCP, UDP Direct Connect Hub, Remote MT
Protocol
412 (Multiple uses) TCP, UDP Direct Connect Client-to-Client, Trap
Convention Port
427 SLP TCP Service Location Protocol
443 HTTPS (HTTP TCP, UDP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
over SSL) SCTP (HTTPS) uses TCP in versions 1.x
and 2. HTTP/3 uses QUIC, a transport
protocol on top of UDP.
445 Microsoft DS TCP, UDP Microsoft Directory Services: TCP for
SMB Active Directory, Windows shares;
UDP for Server Message Block (SMB)
file-sharing
464 Kerberos TCP, UDP For password settings on Kerberos
465 SMTP over TCP Authenticated SMTP over TLS/SSL
TLS/SSL, (SMTPS), URL Rendezvous Directory
SSM for Cisco’s Source Specific Multicast
protocol (SSM)
497 Dantz TCP, UDP A software suite for backing up
Retrospect operating systems
 500 IPSec / UDP Internet Protocol Security / Internet
ISAKMP / IKE Security Association and Key
Management Protocol / Internet Key
Exchange
512 rexec TCP Remote Process Execution
513 rlogin TCP The Unix program rlogin allows
users to log in on another host using a
network.
514 syslog UDP Syslog Protocol, for collecting and
organizing all of the log files sent from
the various devices on a network
515 LPD/LPR TCP Line Printer Daemon protocol, or Line
Printer Remote protocol
520 RIP UDP Routing Information Protocol, used to
find the optimal path between source
and destination networks
521 RIPng (IPv6) UDP Routing Information Protocol next
generation, the IPv6 compatible
version of RIP
540 UUCP TCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol
548 AFP TCP Apple Filing Protocol
554 RTSP TCP, UDP Real Time Streaming Protocol
546 DHCPv6 TCP, UDP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
version 6. DHCPv6 Clients listen for
DHCPv6 messages on UDP port 546.
547 DHCPv6 TCP, UDP DHCPv6 Servers and DHCPv6 Relay
Agents listen for DHCPv6 messages
on UDP port 547.
\ 560 rmonitor UDP Remote Monitor
563 NNTP over TCP, UDP Network News Transfer Protocol with
TLS/SSL encryption and verification
587 SMTP TCP For email message submission via
SMTP
591 FileMaker TCP FileMaker Web Companion, the web
publishing technology available in
FileMaker versions 4-6
593 Microsoft TCP, UDP Distributed Component Object Model
DCOM (DCOM)
596 SMSD TCP, UDP SysMan Station daemon
631 IPP TCP Internet Printing Protocol
636 LDAP over TCP, UDP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
TLS/SSL over TLS/SSL
639 MSDP (PIM) TCP Multicast Source Discovery Protocol,
which is part of the Protocol
Independent Multicast (PIM) family
646 LDP (MPLS) TCP, UDP Label Distribution Protocol, applies to
routers capable of Multiprotocol Label
Switching (MPLS)
691 Microsoft TCP Microsoft Exchange Routing
Exchange
860 iSCSI TCP Internet Small Computer Systems
Interface
 873 rsync TCP The rsync file synchronization
protocol efficiently transfers and
synchronizes files between devices
and networked computers.
902 VMware TCP, UDP VMware ESXi, a hypervisor
Server
989 FTPS TCP File Transfer Protocol (data) over
TLS/SSL
990 FTPS TCP File Transfer Protocol (control) over
TLS/SSL
993 IMAP over TCP Internet Message Access Protocol
SSL (IMAPS) over TLS/SSL
995 POP3 over TCP, UDP Post Office Protocol 3 over TLS/SSL
SSL (POP3S)

Registered Ports: 1024 – 49151

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 Port number Service name Transport Description
protocol
1025 Microsoft RPC TCP Microsoft Remote Procedure Call
1026-1029 Windows UDP Windows Messenger popup spam
Messenger
1080 SOCKS proxy TCP (or UDP SOCKS stands for Socket Secure.
since This protocol exchanges network
SOCKS5) packets between a client and server
through a proxy server.
1080 MyDoom TCP Computer virus
1194 OpenVPN TCP, UDP OpenVPN
1214 KAZAA TCP A peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol
1241 Nessus TCP, UDP Nessus Security Scanner
1311 Dell TCP Dell EMC OpenManage Server
OpenManage Administrator Web GUI
1337 WASTE TCP WASTE peer-to-peer encrypted file-
sharing Program
1589 Cisco VQP TCP, UDP Cisco VLAN Query Protocol (VQP)
1701 L2TP VPN TCP Layer Two Tunneling Protocol Virtual
Private Networking
1720 H.323 TCP H.323 Call Control Signaling, a VoIP
call control protocol
1723 Microsoft TCP, UDP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PPTP Virtual Private Networking
1725 Steam UDP Valve Steam Client uses port 1725
1741 CiscoWorks TCP CiscoWorks Small Network
SNMS 2000 Management Solution web server
\ 1755 MMS TCP, UDP Microsoft Media Server
1812 RADIUS UDP RADIUS server authentication and
authorization
1813 RADIUS UDP RADIUS server accounting
1863 (Multiple uses) TCP, UDP MSN Messenger, Xbox Live 360
1900 UPnP UDP Universal Plug and Play
1985 Cisco HSRP UDP Hot Standby Router Protocol
2000 Cisco SCCP TCP Skinny Client Control Protocol
2002 Cisco ACS TCP Access Control Server
2049 NFS UDP Network File Sharing
2082 cPanel TCP, UDP cPanel default
2083 radsec, cPanel TCP, UDP Secure RADIUS Service (radsec),
cPanel default SSL
2100 amiganetfs TCP Amiga Network Filesystem
2222 DirectAdmin TCP Graphical web hosting control panel
2302 Gaming UDP The game HALO uses this port
extensively
2483 Oracle TCP, UDP Oracle database listening for insecure
client connections to the listener,
replaces port 1521
2484 Oracle TCP, UDP Oracle database listening for SSL
client connections to the listener
2745 Bagle.C – TCP Computer worms
Bagle.H
 2967 Symantec AV TCP, UDP Symantec System Center agent
(SSC-AGENT)
3050 Interbase DB TCP, UDP Borland Interbase database
3074 XBOX Live TCP, UDP Gaming: Xbox LIVE and Games for
Windows – Live
3127 MyDoom TCP Computer worm
3128 HTTP Proxy TCP Common web proxy server ports: 80,
8080, 3128, 6588
3222 GLBP TCP, UDP Gateway Load Balancing Protocol
3260 iSCSI Target TCP, UDP Microsoft iSCSI Target Server
3306 MySQL TCP MySQL database system
3389 RDP TCP Windows Remote Desktop Protocol
(Microsoft Terminal Server)
3689 DAAP TCP Digital Audio Access Protocol, used
by Apple’s iTunes and AirPort
Express
3690 SVN TCP, UDP Apache Subversion, a version control
system
3724 World of TCP, UDP Some Blizzard games, Unofficial Club
Warcraft Penguin Disney online game for kids
3784-3785 Ventrilo VoIP TCP, UDP Ventrilo’s Voice over Internet Protocol
program
4333 mSQL TCP Mini SQL server
4444 Blaster TCP, UDP Computer worm
4500 IPSec NAT UDP Internet Protocol Security Network
Traversal Address Translation (NAT) Traversal
4664 Google TCP Google Desktop’s built-in HTTP
Desktop server and indexing software
\ 4672 eMule UDP Peer-to-peer file-sharing software
4899 Radmin TCP Remote computer control software
5000 UPnP TCP Universal Plug and Play
5001 iperf TCP Tool for measuring TCP and UDP
bandwidth performance
5004-5005 RTP, RTSP UDP Real-time Transport Protocol, Real
Time Streaming Protocol
5050 Yahoo! TCP Instant messaging service from Yahoo
Messenger
5060 SIP TCP, UDP Session Initiation Protocol
5061 SIP-TLS TCP Session Initiation Protocol over TLS
5190 (Multiple uses) TCP, UDP ICQ, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger),
Apple iChat
5222-5223 XMPP TCP, UDP Extensible Messaging and Presence
Protocol Client Connection; also used
in Google Talk, Jabber, Apple iChat,
WhatsApp, etc.
5353 MDNS UDP Multicast DNS
5432 PostgreSQL TCP PostgreSQL database system
5554 Sasser TCP Computer worm
5631-5632 pcAnywhere UDP Symantec pcAnywhere
5800 VNC over TCP Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
HTTP
5900-5999 RFB/VNC TCP, UDP VNC Remote Frame Buffer RFB
Server protocol
 6000 X11 TCP X Window System protocol for
delivering payloads between X clients
and servers
6001 X11 UDP X Window System protocol for
delivering payloads between X clients
and servers
6112 Diablo TCP, UDP Gaming
6129 DameWare TCP Remote access software developed
by SolarWinds
6257 WinMX UDP Windows Music Exchange, peer-to-
peer file-sharing freeware
6346-6347 Gnutella2 TCP, UDP Peer-to-peer network protocol
6379 Redis TCP Popular non-relational database
management system (NoSql)
6500 GameSpy TCP, UDP Gaming
6566 SANE TCP, UDP Scanner Access Now Easy
6588 AnalogX TCP AnalogX proxy server
6588 HTTP Proxy TCP Common web proxy server ports: 80,
8080, 3128, 6588
6665-6669 IRC TCP Internet Relay Chat
6679, 6697 IRC over SSL TCP Internet Relay Chat
6699 Napster TCP Peer-to-peer file-sharing application
6881-6999 BitTorrent TCP, UDP BitTorrent uses this range of ports the
most often
6891-6901 Windows Live TCP, UDP Alternatively: MSN Messenger
Messenger
6970 Quicktime TCP, UDP QuickTime streaming server
7000 Cassandra TCP Inter-node communication within the
\ cluster on Apache Cassandra
7001 Cassandra TCP SSL-enabled inter-node
communication within the cluster on
Apache Cassandra
7199 Cassandra TCP Java Management Extensions on
JMX Apache Cassandra
7648-7649 CU-SeeMe TCP, UDP Internet video conferencing client
made by Cornell University
8000 Internet Radio TCP Commonly choice of alternate HTTP
port for web applications
8080 HTTP Proxy TCP Common web proxy server ports: 80,
8080, 3128, 6588
8086 Kaspersky AV TCP Kaspersky AV Control Center
8087 Kaspersky AV UDP Kaspersky AV Control Center
8118 Privoxy TCP Advertisement-filtering Web proxy
8200 VMware TCP, UDP VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance
Server
8222 VMware TCP, UDP VMware Server Management User
Server Interface (insecure Web interface).
8500 (Multiple uses) TCP, UDP Adobe ColdFusion, Flight Message
Transfer Protocol
8767 Teamspeak UDP VoIP communication system for online
gaming
8866 Bagle.B TCP Computer worm
9042 Cassandra TCP Apache Cassandra, a NoSql database
 9100 PDL TCP PDL Data Stream, used for printing to
certain network printers
9101-9103 Bacula TCP, UDP For automating backup tasks
9119 MXit TCP, UDP MXit Instant Messaging (deprecated)
9800 WebDAV TCP, UDP Web-based Distributed Authoring and
Versioning, an extension of HTTP
9898 Dabber TCP Computer worm (Sasser)
9999 Urchin TCP, UDP Urchin Web Analytics
10000 (Multiple uses) TCP, UDP Network Data Management Protocol;
applications: Webmin, BackupExec,
Viatalk; gaming: The Matrix Online,
Dungeon Fighter
10161 SNMP-agents TCP Simple network management
(encrypted) protocol; agents communicate on this
port
10162 SNMP-trap TCP Simple network management
(encrypted) protocol; listens for asynchronous
traps
10113 NetIQ TCP, UDP NetIQ Endpoint
10114 NetIQ TCP, UDP NetIQ Qcheck
10115 NetIQ TCP, UDP NetIQ Endpoint
10116 NetIQ TCP, UDP NetIQ VoIP Assessor
11371 OpenPGP TCP, UDP OpenPGP HTTP Keyserver
12345 NetBus TCP NetBus remote administration tool
(Trojan horse)
13720-13721 NetBackup TCP, UDP NetBackup request daemon
14567 Battlefield UDP Gaming
15118 Dipnet/Oddbo TCP Trojan horse
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19226 AdminSecure TCP Panda Software AdminSecure
Communication Agent
19638 Ensim TCP Ensim Control Panel
20000 Usermin TCP, UDP Web email interface for regular non-
root users
24800 Synergy TCP, UDP Keyboard/mouse sharing software
25999 Xfire TCP Communication tool for gamers
(deprecated)
27015 Half-Life UDP Gaming
27017 MongoDB TCP NoSql database
27374 Sub7 TCP, UDP Trojan horse
28960 Call of Duty TCP, UDP Gaming
31337 Back Orifice TCP, UDP Remote administration tool used for
Trojan horses
33434+ traceroute UDP Utility for displaying paths and
measuring transit delays of packets
across a network

Dynamic/Private Ports: 49152 – 65535

You may use these ports for custom applications free from concerns that it may clash with
existing processes.
 The Most Common Ports for Exams
If you’re studying for IT certifications such as CCNA, focus on these ports:

Port number Service

7 Echo
20, 21 FTP
22 SSH/SCP
23 Telnet
25 SMTP
53 DNS
67, 68 DHCP/BOOTP
69 TFTP
80 HTTP
88 Kerberos
110 POP3
123 NTP
137 NetBIOS
143 IMAP
161 SNMP
194 IRC
389 LDAP
443 HTTPS
445 Microsoft DS SMB
464 Kerberos password settings
547 DHCPv6
596 SMSD
\ 636 LDAP over SSL
1720 H.323
3389 RDP
5060 SIP
5061 SIP over TLS

Conclusion
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