CVE-2024-52616

medium

Description

A flaw was found in the Avahi-daemon, where it initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at startup, incrementing them sequentially after that. This predictable behavior facilitates DNS spoofing attacks, allowing attackers to guess transaction IDs.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326429

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52616

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7437

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-21

Updated: 2025-05-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00064