Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-21181

High

Published: 11 February 2025

Published
11 February 2025
Modified
04 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1358 94.3th percentile
Risk Priority 23 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Denial of Service Vulnerability

Security Summary

CVE-2025-21181 is a Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), published on 2025-02-11T18:15:29.553. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) and is linked to CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) as well as NVD-CWE-noinfo.

The vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to exploit MSMQ remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation results in a high-impact denial of service, disrupting service availability without compromising confidentiality or integrity.

Microsoft's update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21181 details patching instructions. Vicarius provides a detection script at https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-21181-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-microsoft-message-queuing-detection-script and a mitigation script at https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/cve-2025-21181-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-microsoft-message-queuing-mitigation-script.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-400NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20915 · ≤ 10.0.10240.20915
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.7785 · ≤ 10.0.14393.7785
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.6893 · ≤ 10.0.17763.6893
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.5487
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.5487
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4890
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4890
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.3194
microsoft
windows server 2008
all versions, r2
microsoft
windows server 2012
all versions, r2
+5 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

References