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Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Hyper Converged Database

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Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were addressed in Hyper Converged Database version 1.2.4

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2017-6519
DESCRIPTION:   avahi-daemon in Avahi through 0.6.32 and 0.7 inadvertently responds to IPv6 unicast queries with source addresses that are not on-link, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (traffic amplification) and may cause information leakage by obtaining potentially sensitive information from the responding device via port-5353 UDP packets. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2015-2809.
CWE:   CWE-346: Origin Validation Error
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   6.5
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-36217
DESCRIPTION:   Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2021-3502. Reason: This candidate is a duplicate of CVE-2021-3502. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2021-3502 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental usage
CWE:   CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   6.2
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-52615
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.
CWE:   CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   5.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-52616
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.
CWE:   CWE-334: Small Space of Random Values
CVSS Source:   IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score:   5.3
CVSS Vector:   (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
DataStax Hyper-Convergence Database1.2.3

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by upgrading to HCD 1.2.4 (select Installation from sidebar)

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

10 Nov 2025: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
10 November 2025

Initial Publish date:
10 November 2025

UID

ibm17250758