CVE-2024-52616 (GCVE-0-2024-52616)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-21 20:41 – Updated: 2026-06-29 22:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Avahi: avahi wide-area dns predictable transaction ids
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-21 21:06 UTC
CWE
- CWE-334 - Small Space of Random Values
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7437 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52616 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326429 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://github.com/avahi/avahi/pull/577 |
Impacted products
5 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Affected:
0 , < 0.9
(semver)
|
||||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
Unaffected:
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(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos |
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
|
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
|
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 |
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
|
Date Public
2024-11-15 00:00
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