CVE-2025-21290
Published: 14 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-21290 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
Flaw remediation directly addresses the vulnerability by applying the Microsoft patch for CVE-2025-21290 in MSMQ, eliminating the uncontrolled resource consumption issue.
Denial-of-service protection implements mechanisms like rate limiting and traffic shaping to prevent unauthenticated remote attackers from exhausting MSMQ resources.
Resource availability allocates and monitors dedicated resources for MSMQ to detect and mitigate uncontrolled consumption leading to denial of service.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability is a remote unauthenticated DoS in MSMQ via uncontrolled resource consumption (CWE-400), directly enabling Endpoint Denial of Service through application/system exploitation.
NVD Description
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Deeper analysisAI
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
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