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mDNS Service Discovery Probe

mdns-service-discovery-probe is a info severity check in the network category, written in python. Its source is templates/network/mdns/mdns-service-discovery-probe.py in cert-x-gen-templates.

Sends an mDNS service discovery query and checks for a valid response

Field Value
Id mdns-service-discovery-probe
Severity info
Language python
Category network
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version not recorded
Confidence 85
CVSS not recorded
Weakness CWE-200
Tags network, mdns, udp, recon
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a template cites are surfaced.

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info mdns-service-discovery-probe

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.