CVE-2025-59354: Dragonfly has weak integrity checks for downloaded files

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-09-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-328

Description

Dragonfly is an open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system. Prior to 2.1.0, the DragonFly2 uses a variety of hash functions, including the MD5 hash, for downloaded files. This allows attackers to replace files with malicious ones that have a colliding hash. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.0.

Affected products

dragonflyoss dragonfly: before 2.1.0 — fixed in 2.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: dragonflyoss dragonfly 2.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/blob/main/docs/security/dragonfly-comprehensive-report-2023.pdf
https://github.com/dragonflyoss/dragonfly/security/advisories/GHSA-hx2h-vjw2-8r54

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