Flooding: Valid Commands

ID Name
ATAGS-T1049.001 Erroneous Input
ATAGS-T1049.002 Valid Commands

Threat actors may utilize valid commanding as a mechanism for flooding as the processing of these valid commands could expend valuable resources like processing power and battery usage. Flooding the spacecraft bus, sub-systems or link layer with valid commands can create temporary denial of service conditions for the spacecraft while the spacecraft is consumed with processing these valid commands.

ID: ATAGS-T1049.002
Sub-technique of:  ATAGS-T1049
Tactic: Execution
Targeted Components: Network Transport
Responsibility: Provider
Created: 18 April 2026
Last Modified: 18 April 2026

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.