Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-21290

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-2025-21290 is a Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ). Published on 2025-01-14, it is associated with CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) and has 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), indicating high severity due to its potential for significant availability disruption.

An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and without requiring user interaction. Successful exploitation results in high-impact denial of service, potentially rendering the affected MSMQ service unavailable.

The Microsoft Security Response Center advisory provides details on mitigation and patches at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21290.

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

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