CVE-2024-52616
mediumA flaw was found in the Avahi-daemon, where it initializes DNS transaction IDs randomly only once at startup, incrementing them sequentially after that.
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.
CVSS
5.3
5.3 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2024-11-21 21:15
Modified: 2026-10-28 17:17
NVD status: Deferred
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 17:38 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7437 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52616 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326429 secalert@redhat.com
- https://github.com/avahi/avahi/pull/577 secalert@redhat.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 17:38 UTC · record ↗