TCP 2000
Synopsis
- TCP port 2000 is the well-known port for Cisco Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP).
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) and Cisco Unified IP Phones (e.g., 79xx/88xx series) use SCCP over TCP 2000 for call-control signaling and phone registration.
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (CME) on IOS routers also listens on TCP 2000 for SCCP endpoints.
- Cisco IP Communicator (softphone) can register to CUCM using SCCP on TCP 2000.
- Open-source PBXs that support SCCP—such as Asterisk with the chan_sccp (chan_sccp_b) driver and FreeSWITCH with mod_skinny—commonly use TCP 2000 to interoperate with Cisco SCCP phones.
- Security note: attackers sometimes scan TCP/2000 to identify Cisco VoIP deployments, and past SCCP implementation issues have enabled denial-of-service or unauthorized phone registration in certain environments.
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