Does Couchbase Server be affected for Memcached DDOS attacks?

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Does Couchbase Server be affected for Memcached DDOS attacks?

AS default, when Couchbase Server started, 11211 post is listening on 0.0.0.0.

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Couchbase doesn’t support UDP

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ddos memcached attack happens on UDP port being open. Since Couchbase memcached runs on TCP, ddos attached cannot be orchestrated.
More details about the attack can be found here
DDOS memcached attack