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T2053.001
enhancement

Receiver flooding

Parent: T2053

Description

An attacker can try to flood the spacecraft receiver sending great amount of data, valid or not. Since the Ground Station notices the status of the receiver, the power of the transmitter should increase to unlock the receiver from the messages flood, rising the receiver's threshold and cutting out the malicious signal. (Citation: European Space Agency)

Mapped SPARTA techniques

2 techniques

  • EX-0013.01Valid CommandsST0004
    addresses
    moderate

    T2053.001 'Receiver flooding' covers RF-layer flooding with valid or invalid data — addresses EX-0013.01's saturation of TC paths with valid commands at high cadence.

  • EX-0013.02Erroneous InputST0004
    addresses
    moderate

    T2053.001 'Receiver flooding' explicitly covers flooding 'valid or not' — addresses EX-0013.02's noise/malformed-frame flooding that drives AGC, clock recovery, and parsers to busy-loop on rejection.

Cite as SafeMode Space, space-shield T2053.001.

Built 2026-07-25 from 216 techniques, 334 regulation articles, 125 ENISA controls, 2,610 framework controls, and 90 countermeasures.