CVE-2025-41255
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.0 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.19% probability · 8th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-266
- Source
- 1e3a9e0f-5156-4bf8-b8a3-cc311bfc0f4a
EPSS 0.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck/security/advisories/GHSA-vjjc-grpp-m655
- https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20250325-01_Cyberduck_Mountain_Duck_Certificate_Handling
- https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck/security/advisories/GHSA-vjjc-grpp-m655
- https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2025/SBA-ADV-20250325-01_Cyberduck_Mountain_Duck_Certificate_Handling
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.