CVE-2025-21290: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Technical Summary
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-21290, affects Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507 (build 10.0.10240.0) in the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service. It is classified under CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) and can lead to a denial of service condition. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.5, indicating high severity, with an attack vector of network, low attack complexity, no privileges or user interaction required, and impact limited to availability. Microsoft has published an official fix for this vulnerability.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by exhausting resources in the MSMQ service on affected Windows 10 Version 1507 systems, resulting in system unavailability. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users and administrators should apply the security update provided in the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21290 to remediate this vulnerability.
CVE-2025-21290: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507
Description
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Denial of Service Vulnerability
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.5high
Affected software
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-21290, affects Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507 (build 10.0.10240.0) in the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service. It is classified under CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) and can lead to a denial of service condition. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.5, indicating high severity, with an attack vector of network, low attack complexity, no privileges or user interaction required, and impact limited to availability. Microsoft has published an official fix for this vulnerability.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by exhausting resources in the MSMQ service on affected Windows 10 Version 1507 systems, resulting in system unavailability. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft. Users and administrators should apply the security update provided in the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21290 to remediate this vulnerability.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- microsoft
- Date Reserved
- 2024-12-10T23:54:12.945Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21290","vendor":"Microsoft"}]
Threat ID: 68c0bd509ed239a66badeb51
Added to database: 09/09/2025, 23:50:40 UTC
Last enriched: 06/10/2026, 09:50:10 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC
Views: 116
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