DHCPwn is a tool used for testing DHCP IP exhaustion attacks. It can also be
used to sniff local DHCP traffic.
Useful links:
The DHCP protocol is connectionless and implemented via UDP. These two
characteristics allow this attack to be performed. Since there is no actual
connection being made between the client and server we can quickly send many
spoofed requests.
DHCP servers rely on the senders MAC address to allocate IP addresses. We can
easily spoof many requests with different, fake MAC addresses. This will
eventually exhaust the server's ability to assign new IP addresses. Depending
on the server's method of releasing IP addresses associated with a given MAC
address this attack will either be more, or less effective. For example, if
a server quickly releases allocations that it doesn't receive responses from,
the attack will be less effective.
This attack is typically considered to be a form of DoS.
$ pip3 install dhcpwn
$ dhcpwn -h
OR
$ git clone https://github.com/mschwager/dhcpwn.git
$ cd dhcpwn
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 dhcpwn.py -h
Flood:
$ dhcpwn --interface wlan0 flood --count 256
Sniff:
$ dhcpwn --interface wlan0 sniff
Help:
$ dhcpwn -h