During an internal assessment you transmit thousands of DHCPDISCOVER messages, each with a unique spoofed MAC address, until the corporate DHCP server's address pool is completely exhausted. You then launch your own unauthorized DHCP service in 'authoritative' mode that responds first and assigns new hosts an IP configuration whose default gateway points to your laptop, allowing you to capture their traffic. Which DHCP-based attack technique are you executing?
A broadcast smurf-style DHCP flood intended only to crash the server.
Abusing DHCP Option 82 to spoof relay information and redirect traffic.
A DHCP starvation attack combined with a rogue DHCP server takeover to perform a man-in-the-middle.
DHCP relay agent spoofing to circumvent VLAN access-control lists.
The tester is first performing a DHCP starvation attack-flooding the legitimate server with requests that consume every available lease. Once no addresses remain, clients will accept the first DHCPOFFER they see. By immediately running a rogue (unauthorized) DHCP server, the attacker becomes that first responder and supplies malicious options such as a default gateway or DNS server under her control. This combination is the textbook DHCP starvation followed by rogue DHCP server takeover, enabling man-in-the-middle sniffing. The other options describe different DHCP abuse methods but do not deplete the pool and then mis-serve clients from a fake DHCP service.
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