Security Threats for the Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP)
RFC 7186
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RFC - Informational
(April 2014; Errata)
Updated by RFC 7985
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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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.
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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
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