CVE-2024-52616

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.04 BB Relevance: 71/100
Published: 2024-11-21 Modified: 2026-10-28 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: Low
A: None

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
avahi &mdash; 0 < 0.9-rc2
avahi &mdash; 0 < 0.9-rc2

Bug Bounty Relevance

71 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.3 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.73%
Raw Score 0.007260
Percentile 54.0%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00726
2026-10-28
0.00726

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
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