CVE-2025-21289
Published: 14 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-21289 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 1507. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked in the top 20.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-5 (Denial-of-service Protection) and SC-6 (Resource Availability).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly protects against denial-of-service events by limiting the effects of uncontrolled resource consumption attacks like this MSMQ vulnerability.
Remediates the specific MSMQ flaw through timely application of vendor security updates as referenced in Microsoft's update guide.
Ensures resource availability by protecting against exhaustion and denial-of-service disruptions caused by this CVE.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CVE describes a remote unauthenticated DoS via resource exhaustion in MSMQ, directly enabling T1499.004 (Application or System Exploitation) to crash or deny service to the target application.
NVD Description
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-21289 is a Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ). Published on 2025-01-14T18:15:50.363, 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 availability impact with no impact on confidentiality or integrity.
The vulnerability can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation results in a denial of service condition, disrupting MSMQ service availability.
Microsoft's update guide provides details on mitigation, available at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21289.
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