Medium severity · published Nov 21, 2024
CVE-2024-52615
Avahi: avahi wide-area dns uses constant source port
5.3
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in Avahi-daemon, which relies on fixed source ports for wide-area DNS queries. This issue simplifies attacks where malicious DNS responses are injected.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 50% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor
AV
avahi · avahi
before 0.9-rc3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52615
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-52615
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11402
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16441
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52615
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2326418
github.com
https://github.com/avahi/avahi/pull/577
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