TCP Port 5050 – mmcc
About TCP Port 5050
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) registers port 5050 for mmcc. The IANA description reads: ‘multimedia conference control tool’. This port appears in 9 IDS rules and does not have notable malware activity indicators in our data.
IDS Rule References
9 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 5050. Treat that number as context, not a danger score. Many detection rules are written against groups of ports rather than one service, web ports especially, so common web alternate ports inherit large counts while genuinely sensitive services can show few rules or none. Presence in IDS rules does not mean traffic on this port is malicious.
Rule categories (top 1): policy-violation (9).
Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 5050:
- POLICY-SOCIAL Yahoo IM successful logon
- POLICY-SOCIAL Yahoo IM voicechat
- POLICY-SOCIAL Yahoo IM ping
- POLICY-SOCIAL Yahoo IM conference invitation
- POLICY-SOCIAL Yahoo IM conference logon success
Data Sources
This information is compiled from: IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry and Snort Community Rules (GPLv2).