CVE-2024-52616

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 3.1

5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 53% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-334

Published

2024-11-21

Modified

2026-10-21

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-22

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7437
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52616
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326429
• https://github.com/avahi/avahi/pull/577

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