CVE-2024-52616 Avahi: avahi wide-area dns predictable transaction ids
Medium 5.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-52616 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2024-52616 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, published on 21 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52616 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52616/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52616/index.md)
Predictable DNS transaction IDs in Avahi allow attackers to spoof DNS responses, potentially redirecting traffic or bypassing security controls.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-52616?
CVE-2024-52616 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, published on 21 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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: CWE-334
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52616?
Linux distribution packages (40)
avahi AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-autoipd AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-compat-howl AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-compat-howl-devel AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-compat-libdns_sd AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-devel AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-glib AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-glib-devel AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-gobject AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-gobject-devel AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-libs AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-tools AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-autoipd Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-autoipd-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-compat-howl-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-dnsconfd-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-glib Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-glib-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-gobject-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-libs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-tools-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-ui-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-ui-gtk3-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-ui-tools-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-autoipd-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-compat-howl-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-dnsconfd-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-glib-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-gobject-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-libs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
avahi-libs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos | All versions | 0:0.8-22.el9_6 |
How do I fix CVE-2024-52616?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2024-52616 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52616 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2024-52616, ALSA-2025:7437, AZL-53579, AZL-53756, BELL-CVE-2024-52616, CLEANSTART-2026-NQ59682 and 15 more.