dheater

DHEater DHEater is the proof-of-concept implementation of the DHEat attack CVE-2002-20001. For further information about the attack visit the project page or read the full technical paper on IEEE Access. Disclaimer DHEater is a proof-of-concept denial-of-service tool intended only for defensive...

CVE-2002-20001: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The Diffie-Hellman Key Agreement Protocol allows remote attackers from the client side to send arbitrary numbers that are actually not public keys, and trigger expensive server-side DHE modular-exponentiation calculations, aka a DHEat or DHEater attack. The client needs very little CPU resources...