Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-21251

High

Published: 14 January 2025

Published
14 January 2025
Modified
24 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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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 0.0131 79.9th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Denial of Service Vulnerability

Security Summary

CVE-2025-21251 is a Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ). Published on 2025-01-14T18:15:42.867, it is associated with CWE-400 and NVD-CWE-noinfo, carrying 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).

The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation leads to high impact on availability, potentially causing denial of service, while having no impact on confidentiality or integrity.

Microsoft's advisory provides details on mitigation; see https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21251.

Details

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

Affected Products

microsoft
windows 10 1507
≤ 10.0.10240.20890 · ≤ 10.0.10240.20890
microsoft
windows 10 1607
≤ 10.0.14393.7699 · ≤ 10.0.14393.7699
microsoft
windows 10 1809
≤ 10.0.17763.6775 · ≤ 10.0.17763.6775
microsoft
windows 10 21h2
≤ 10.0.19044.5371
microsoft
windows 10 22h2
≤ 10.0.19045.5371
microsoft
windows 11 22h2
≤ 10.0.22621.4751
microsoft
windows 11 23h2
≤ 10.0.22631.4751
microsoft
windows 11 24h2
≤ 10.0.26100.2894
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