Mitigation
Attacks using DHCP starvation are easy to implement. Port security is a way to mitigate the effects of this type of attack. Avoid DHCP starvation attacks with advanced cybersecurity training. Your network is instantly vulnerable to DHCP exhaustion attacks. The key to preventing such attacks and maintaining network security is finding ways to prevent hostile actors from flooding DHCP servers with forged DISCOVER packets, preventing them from offering IP addresses to legitimate clients.
Mitigation of DHCP Starvation Attack
In a DHCP starvation attack, an attacker creates spoofed DHCP requests with the goal of consuming all available IP addresses that a DHCP server can allocate. This attack targets DHCP servers. The attack could deny service to authorized network users. In other words, a malicious cyberattack that targets DHCP servers is known as a starvation attack. An adversarial actor bombards a DHCP server with false DISCOVER packets during a DHCP assault until the service runs out of IP addresses. Once that occurs, the attacker can refuse service to authorized network users or even provide a different DHCP connection that can result in a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack.