Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-21351

High

Published: 11 February 2025

Published
11 February 2025
Modified
28 February 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 0.1024 93.2th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Windows Active Directory Domain Services API Denial of Service Vulnerability

Security Summary

CVE-2025-21351 is a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting the Windows Active Directory Domain Services API. Published on 2025-02-11, it is classified under CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5, reflecting high availability impact with no confidentiality or integrity effects.

The vulnerability can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) or user interaction (UI:N), and without changing scope (S:U). Successful exploitation results in a high-impact denial of service (A:H), potentially disrupting Active Directory Domain Services availability.

Microsoft's update guide provides details on mitigation, available at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21351.

Details

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

Affected Products

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 2016
≤ 10.0.14393.7785
microsoft
windows server 2019
≤ 10.0.17763.6893
microsoft
windows server 2022
≤ 10.0.20348.3207
+2 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

References