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Potential DHCP Starvation Attack
Description
'This creates an incident in the event that an excessive amount of DHCPREQUEST have been recieved by a DHCP Server and could potentially be an indication of a DHCP Starvation Attack.'
- Rule type
- Scheduled
- Version
- 1.0.5
- Declared status
- Available
- Query frequency
- 1h
- Query period
- 1h
- Trigger
- gt 0
Declared MITRE coverage
Declared sources
Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.
Connectors
KQL query
Original query, unchanged.
let threshold = 1000;
Infoblox
| where ProcessName =~ "dhcpd" and Log_Type =~ "DHCPREQUEST"
| summarize count() by SrcIpAddr, bin(TimeGenerated,5m)
| where count_ > threshold
| join kind=inner (Infoblox
| where ProcessName =~ "dhcpd" and Log_Type =~ "DHCPREQUEST"
) on SrcIpAddr
Declared entities
Related content
Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.
Source provenance
GitHubDisplayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.
- Commit
9800e51↗- Source identifier
57e56fc9-417a-4f41-a579-5475aea7b8ce
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING
Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC