NRDAX-T0100 - Handshake Crypto CPU Burn

connection_exhaustion · active · first seen 2023-01-01

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

Neodyme ND-FD1-MD-02: QUIC INITIAL flood → per-handshake x25519 + ed25519 sign-tile CPU exhaustion (compute-bound, distinct from the connection-slot flood)

instances (1)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
solana	sol_tpu_quic_initial_cpu	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	sol_tpu_quic_initial_cpu	neodyme.io ↗

references

cve: CVE-2023-39533

cve: CVE-2025-29606

related (connection_exhaustion)

NRDAX-T0041 - Cross-Chain Peer Pool Pollution active NRDAX-T0064 - Endpoint Concurrency Cap Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0088 - GetData Request Flood active NRDAX-T0099 - Half-Open Handshake Slowloris active NRDAX-T0145 - Malformed HTTP Body Crash active NRDAX-T0206 - Pre-Handshake Packet Flood active NRDAX-T0214 - Protocol Message Flood Unbounded Goroutine active NRDAX-T0225 - QUIC Control Frame Flood active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0100

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0100.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0100,
  title = {Handshake Crypto CPU Burn (NRDAX-T0100)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0100},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0100",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Handshake Crypto CPU Burn (NRDAX-T0100)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0100",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}