CVE-2025-41256
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck - Weak Hash Algorithm for Certificate Fingerprint
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improper handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), since the certificate fingerprint is stored as SHA-1, although SHA-1 is considered weak.
This issue affects Cyberduck: through 9.1.6; Mountain Duck: through 4.17.5.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
7.4
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck - Weak Hash Algorithm for Certificate Fingerprint
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improper handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), since the certificate fingerprint is stored as SHA-1, although SHA-1 is considered weak.
This issue affects Cyberduck: through 9.1.6; Mountain Duck: through 4.17.5.
- Record
CVE-2025-41256- CVSS 3.1
- 7.4 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-328
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-19095
7.4
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improper handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), since the certificate fingerprint is stored as SHA-1, although SHA-1 is considered weak.
This issue affects Cyberduck: through 9.1.6; Mountain Duck: through 4.17.5.
- Record
EUVD-2025-19095- CVSS 3.1
- 7.4 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-qq37-7frg-jxx4
7.4
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improper handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e...
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improper handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), since the certificate fingerprint is stored as SHA-1, although SHA-1 is considered weak.
This issue affects Cyberduck: through 9.1.6; Mountain Duck: through 4.17.5.
- Record
GHSA-qq37-7frg-jxx4- CVSS 3.1
- 7.4 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-328
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
7.4
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improper handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), since the certificate fingerprint is stored as SHA-1, although SHA-1 is considered weak.
This issue affects Cyberduck: through 9.1.6; Mountain Duck: through 4.17.5.
- Record
CVE-2025-41256- CVSS 3.1
- 7.4 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-328
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
7.4
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck - Weak Hash Algorithm for Certificate Fingerprint
Cyberduck and Mountain Duck improper handle TLS certificate pinning for untrusted certificates (e.g., self-signed), since the certificate fingerprint is stored as SHA-1, although SHA-1 is considered weak.
This issue affects Cyberduck: through 9.1.6; Mountain Duck: through 4.17.5.
- Record
CVE-2025-41256- CVSS 3.1
- 7.4 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-328
- 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-2025-41256 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.4) 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 0.13%, the 2nd percentile. No source names a fixed version.
References
github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20250325-02_Cyberduck_Mountain_Duck_Weak_Hash
github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck/security/advisories/GHSA-688c-vjrc-84rv
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41256
github.com/advisories/GHSA-qq37-7frg-jxx4
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/41xxx/CVE-2025-41256.json
github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck