CVE-2025-41255
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck - Improper Certificate Store Handling
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improperly handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), unnecessarily installing it to the Windows Certificate Store of the current user without any restrictions.
This issue affects Cyberduck through 9.1.6 and Mountain Duck through 4.17.5.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck - Improper Certificate Store Handling
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improperly handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), unnecessarily installing it to the Windows Certificate Store of the current user without any restrictions.
This issue affects Cyberduck through 9.1.6 and Mountain Duck through 4.17.5.
- Record
CVE-2025-41255- CVSS 3.1
- 8.0 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-266
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-19096
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improperly handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), unnecessarily installing it to the Windows Certificate Store of the current user without any restrictions.
This issue affects Cyberduck through 9.1.6 and Mountain Duck through 4.17.5.
- Record
EUVD-2025-19096- CVSS 3.1
- 8.0 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-wxfx-h38m-cr9x
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improperly handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates ...
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improperly handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), unnecessarily installing it to the Windows Certificate Store of the current user without any restrictions.
This issue affects Cyberduck through 9.1.6 and Mountain Duck through 4.17.5.
- Record
GHSA-wxfx-h38m-cr9x- CVSS 3.1
- 8.0 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-266
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improperly handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), unnecessarily installing it to the Windows Certificate Store of the current user without any restrictions.
This issue affects Cyberduck through 9.1.6 and Mountain Duck through 4.17.5.
- Record
CVE-2025-41255- CVSS 3.1
- 8.0 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-266
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck - Improper Certificate Store Handling
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improperly handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), unnecessarily installing it to the Windows Certificate Store of the current user without any restrictions.
This issue affects Cyberduck through 9.1.6 and Mountain Duck through 4.17.5.
- Record
CVE-2025-41255- CVSS 3.1
- 8.0 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-266
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-41255 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.0) in Iterate Gmbh Cyberduck, published June 25, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.19%, the 8th percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20250325-01_Cyberduck_Mountain_Duck_Certificate_Handling
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41255