Small Space of Random Values Affecting avahi package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-AVAHI-10075164
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed21 Nov 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-52616  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-334  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Small Space of Random Values due to the initialization of DNS transaction IDs in a predictable manner at startup and their sequential incrementation thereafter. An attacker can facilitate DNS spoofing attacks by guessing transaction IDs.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1