Microsoft released emergency updates on August 12, 2025 to fix a high-severity flaw in Windows Remote Desktop Services that allows unauthenticated, network-based denial-of-service attacks against a wide range of Windows servers and desktops, tracked as CVE-2025-53722.
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Remote Desktop...
august 2025
cve-2025-53722
cwe-400
denial of service
dos
microsoft security
network level authentication
patch
rd gateway
rdp
rds
remote desktop
resource exhaustion
security mitigation
virtual desktops
windows
windows 10
windows 11
windows server
Microsoft’s advisory lists CVE-2025-53722 as a denial-of-service flaw in Windows Remote Desktop Services caused by uncontrolled resource consumption, allowing an attacker who can send requests over the network to exhaust resources and render RDS unavailable. Background
Remote Desktop Services...