CVE-2026-54590 (GCVE-0-2026-54590)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-08 20:36 – Updated: 2026-07-08 20:36
VLAI
Title
AsyncSSH AuthorizedKeysFile username substitution bypass through ~ and environment expansion
Summary
AsyncSSH is a Python package which provides an asynchronous client and server implementation of the SSHv2 protocol on top of the Python asyncio framework. Version 2.23.0 contains an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-45309 in SSHServerConfig._set_tokens that blocks /, , and .. before %u substitution in AuthorizedKeysFile but does not block a leading ~ or ${ENV}, allowing later expansion in _expand_val and Path(filename).expanduser() to escape the intended authorized-keys directory. This issue is fixed in version 2.23.1.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/commit/3d515ba9b… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/releases/tag/v2.23.1 | x_refsource_MISC |
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