Address resolution protocol spoofing attacks and security approaches: A survey

Abstract

Address resolution protocol (ARP) is a very popular communication protocol in the local area network (LAN), working under the network layer, as per the open systems interconnection (OSI) model. It is used to associate Internet protocol (IP) address to medium access control (MAC) address; hence, the IP‐MAC addresses are stored in ARP cache of any network host. ARP has weakness in authentication that an attacker can exploit to gain unauthorized access to one's sensitive data. There are some approaches that can be used against ARP spoofing attacks. These provide an efficient and secure way to mitigate ARP attacks and detect ARP poisoning that can reduce the attack. This paper will discuss: various effective approaches, security issues in ARP spoofing, and poisoning attacks.