NRDAX-T0206 - Pre-Handshake Packet Flood

Compute amplification · P2P and gossip · late bound · 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

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
ethereum	geth_rlpx_auth_flood	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	geth_rlpx_auth_flood	notes.ethereum.org ↗

related (Compute amplification)

NRDAX-T0006 - Async Runtime Blocking VM Execution active NRDAX-T0076 - Expensive Debug RPC Compute Amplification active NRDAX-T0088 - GetData Request Flood active NRDAX-T0100 - Handshake Crypto CPU Burn active NRDAX-T0139 - Legacy Sighash Quadratic CPU Blowup active NRDAX-T0143 - Malformed Field Gossip Before Validation active NRDAX-T0148 - Malformed KZG Proof Mismatch DoS active NRDAX-T0166 - Move Verifier Fixpoint CPU Exhaustion 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"
}

badge

[![NRDAX-T0206 in the NRDAX registry](https://nrdax.com/badge/NRDAX-T0206.svg)](https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0206-pre-handshake-packet-flood)

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-T0206

Cite it (BibTeX)

nrdax cite NRDAX-T0206 --format bibtex

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