Port 1883 (TCP) โ€” MQTT

MQTT message broker (plain).

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Port
1883
Protocol
TCP
Service
MQTT
Internet exposure risk
High

Use MQTT over TLS (8883) with authentication.

Check if port 1883 is open

On the server, see what is listening:

sudo ss -tulpn | grep ':1883 '

From another machine, test reachability:

nc -zv your-server.example.com 1883

Block port 1883 from the internet

With UFW (Ubuntu/Debian):

sudo ufw deny 1883

With firewalld (RHEL/AlmaLinux/Rocky):

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --remove-port=1883/tcp && sudo firewall-cmd --reload

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