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Potential DHCP Starvation via High Client MAC Cardinality

Attackers utilize DHCP starvation by flooding network segments with DHCP DISCOVER messages containing a high cardinality of distinct client MAC addresses to exhaust the DHCP lease pool, potentially leading to denial of service for legitimate clients and facilitating rogue DHCP server deployment.

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