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CVE-2025-21300: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1507

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VulnerabilityCVE-2025-21300cvecve-2025-21300cwe-400
Published: 01/14/2025 (01/14/2025, 18:04:33 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: Microsoft
Product: Windows 10 Version 1507

Description

Windows Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Device Host Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVSS v3.1

Score 7.5high

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Affected software

Affected versions
10.0.10240.0

AI-Powered Analysis

Machine-generated threat intelligence

AILast updated: 06/10/2026, 09:51:29 UTC

Technical Analysis

This vulnerability in Windows 10 Version 1507 involves the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Device Host component, where uncontrolled resource consumption can be triggered, resulting in a denial of service. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 7.5, indicating high severity, with network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges or user interaction required, and impact limited to availability. Microsoft has published an official fix to address this issue.

Potential Impact

An attacker can remotely exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service on affected Windows 10 Version 1507 systems by exhausting resources in the UPnP Device Host service. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity, but availability is severely affected.

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-2025-21300 to remediate this vulnerability.

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.1
Assigner Short Name
microsoft
Date Reserved
2024-12-10T23:54:12.950Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
official-fix
Vendor Advisory Urls
[{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21300","vendor":"Microsoft"}]

Threat ID: 68c0bd509ed239a66badeb76

Added to database: 09/09/2025, 23:50:40 UTC

Last enriched: 06/10/2026, 09:51:29 UTC

Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:49 UTC

Views: 89

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