CVE intelligence

CVE-2024-52616

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Nov 21, 2024Sources checked Oct 5, 2026

5.3MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2024-52616 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.3. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

0.8-5
0.8-4

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.7%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is 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.

Source: NVD