Security Threats for the Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP)
RFC 7186
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(April 2014; Errata)
Updated by RFC 7985
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Authors | Jiazi Yi , Ulrich Herberg , Thomas Clausen | ||
Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Joseph Macker | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2013-05-23) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7186 (Informational) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
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Responsible AD | Adrian Farrel | ||
IESG note | Joe Macker <jpmacker@gmail.com> is the document shepherd | ||
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IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Yi Request for Comments: 7186 LIX, Ecole Polytechnique Category: Informational U. Herberg ISSN: 2070-1721 Fujitsu Laboratories of America T. Clausen LIX, Ecole Polytechnique April 2014 Security Threats for the Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP) Abstract This document analyzes common security threats of the Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP) and describes their potential impacts on Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) routing protocols using NHDP. This document is not intended to propose solutions to the threats described. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7186. Yi, et al. Informational [Page 1] RFC 7186 Security Threats for NHDP April 2014 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2014 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. NHDP Threat Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. Detailed Threat Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.1. Jamming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.2. Denial-of-Service Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.3. Eavesdropping and Traffic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.4. Incorrect HELLO Message Generation . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4.1. Identity Spoofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4.2. Link Spoofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.5. Replay Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.6. Message Timing Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.6.1. Interval Time Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.6.2. Validity Time Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.7. Indirect Channel Overloading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.8. Attack on Link Quality Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5. Impact of Inconsistent Information Bases on Protocols using NHDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.1. MPR Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.1.1. Flooding Disruption due to Identity Spoofing . . . . 12 5.1.2. Flooding Disruption due to Link Spoofing . . . . . . 13 5.1.3. Broadcast Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5.2. Routing Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.3. Invalid or Nonexistent Paths to Destinations . . . . . . 16 5.4. Data Sinkhole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6. Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Yi, et al. Informational [Page 2] RFC 7186 Security Threats for NHDP April 2014 1. Introduction The Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP) [RFC6130] allows routers to acquire topological information up to two hops away fromShow full document text