NRDAX-T0206 - Pre-Handshake Packet Flood
connection_exhaustion · active · first seen 2026-07-01
provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline
mechanism
EL-2026-06 (EF public-disclosure): RLPx pre-auth packet flood → CPU/bandwidth exhaustion
instances (1)
| chain | primitive | fidelity | origin | reproducer (bundle) | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ethereum | geth_rlpx_auth_flood | lab | reverse-engineered-cve | geth_rlpx_auth_flood | notes.ethereum.org ↗ |
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-T0100 - Handshake Crypto CPU Burn active NRDAX-T0145 - Malformed HTTP Body Crash active NRDAX-T0214 - Protocol Message Flood Unbounded Goroutine active NRDAX-T0225 - QUIC Control Frame Flood active
cite
https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0206
plain
NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0206.
bibtex
@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0206,
title = {Pre-Handshake Packet Flood (NRDAX-T0206)},
howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0206},
} json (csl)
{
"id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0206",
"type": "dataset",
"title": "Pre-Handshake Packet Flood (NRDAX-T0206)",
"URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0206",
"publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}