Losing Control of the Internet: Using the Data Plane to Attack the Control Plane
The work
| Authors | Max Schuchard; Abedelaziz Mohaisen; Denis Foo Kune; Nicholas Hopper; Yongdae Kim; Eugene Y. Vasserman |
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| Editors | |
| Type | inproceedings |
| Year | 2010 |
| Citekey | schuchard2010losing |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer and communications security |
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| Pages | 726--728 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/1866307.1866411 |
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| ISBN | 978-1-4503-0245-6 |
Abstract
In this work, we introduce the Coordinated Cross Plane Session Termination, or CXPST, attack, a distributed denial of service attack that attacks the control plane of the Internet. CXPST extends previous work that demonstrates a vulnerability in routers that allows an adversary to disconnect a pair of routers using only data plane traffic. By carefully choosing BGP sessions to terminate, CXPST generates a surge of BGP updates that are seen by nearly all core routers on the Internet. This surge of updates surpasses the computational capacity of affected routers, crippling their ability to make routing decisions.
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| How it got here | import via bibtex |
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| Added | 2026-08-04 00:00 UTC |
| Approved by | a person 2026-08-16 15:33 UTC |
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Cite it as
@inproceedings{schuchard2010losing,
title = {Losing Control of the Internet: Using the Data Plane to Attack the Control Plane},
author = {Max Schuchard and Abedelaziz Mohaisen and Denis Foo Kune and Nicholas Hopper and Yongdae Kim and Eugene Y. Vasserman},
year = {2010},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer and communications security},
pages = {726--728},
isbn = {978-1-4503-0245-6},
doi = {10.1145/1866307.1866411},
}
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