Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-52616

Published
21 November 2024
Modified
29 June 2026
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0068 49th percentile
Risk Priority 45 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-52616 is a medium-severity Small Space of Random Values (CWE-334) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Brute Force (T1110); ranked at the 49th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to IA-5 (Authenticator Management) and SC-12 (Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A04:2025 Cryptographic Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

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.

CWE(s)
CWE-334

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1110 Brute Force Credential Access
Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.
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T1110.001 Password Guessing Credential Access
Adversaries with no prior knowledge of legitimate credentials within the system or environment may guess passwords to attempt access to accounts.
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T1110.002 Password Cracking Credential Access
Adversaries may use password cracking to attempt to recover usable credentials, such as plaintext passwords, when credential material such as password hashes are obtained.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2023-6951Shared CWE-334
CVE-2025-3895Shared CWE-334
CVE-2024-54017Shared CWE-334
CVE-2024-51720Shared CWE-334
CVE-2026-71851Shared CWE-334
CVE-2023-39979Shared CWE-334
CVE-2024-6890Shared CWE-334

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

IA-5 Authenticator Management partial match

IA-5 requires management of authenticator strength which includes ensuring random authenticators have adequate value space.

SC-12 Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management partial match

SC-12 requires proper cryptographic key generation which structurally demands a sufficiently large random value space.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require cryptographically strong RNGs with adequate value space, while fixing only this CWE addresses one narrow aspect of the control.

PR.AA-03 partial match
prevents

Authentication mechanisms often depend on random values (nonces, tokens), so the control can reduce exposure but eliminating the CWE does not achieve authentication outcomes.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.24 Use of cryptography mostly match
prevents

Cryptographic controls require adequate key/seed entropy, directly mitigating small random-value spaces.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect insufficient randomness in tokens, session IDs, or keys.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure-coding standards explicitly call for cryptographically strong random number generation.

A.8.5 Secure authentication partial match
mitigates

Secure authentication mechanisms often rely on unpredictable tokens or nonces, so weak randomness undermines them.

References