NRDAX-T0124 - INV Flood GetHeaders Amplification

Response amplification · P2P and gossip · no bound · active · first seen 2026-07-01

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

CVE-2024-52915: INV with 50k items → 50k getheaders replies / send-buffer blowup

live exposure

No exposure data. Slashr ↗ has no risk signal mapped to this technique yet — absence of data is not absence of exposure.

instances (1)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
bitcoin	btc_inv_buffer_blowup	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	btc_inv_buffer_blowup	bitcoincore.org ↗

related (Response amplification)

NRDAX-T0182 - Optimistic ACK Congestion Window Manipulation active NRDAX-T0280 - Spoofed Endpoint-Proof Bypass Amplification active NRDAX-T0329 - Unbounded RPC Response Amplification active NRDAX-T0345 - Unrated GetHeaders Response Flood active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0124

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0124.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0124,
  title = {INV Flood GetHeaders Amplification (NRDAX-T0124)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0124},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0124",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "INV Flood GetHeaders Amplification (NRDAX-T0124)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0124",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}

badge

[![NRDAX-T0124 in the NRDAX registry](https://nrdax.com/badge/NRDAX-T0124.svg)](https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0124-inv-flood-getheaders-amplification)

use from the CLI

Retrieve or cite this technique from a script or the terminal with the NRDAX Python library & CLI.

Retrieve this technique

nrdax get NRDAX-T0124

Cite it (BibTeX)

nrdax cite NRDAX-T0124 --format bibtex

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