CVE-2026-54591 (GCVE-0-2026-54591)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-08 20:33 – Updated: 2026-07-08 20:33
VLAI
Title
AsyncSSH: SCP Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Write
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. Prior to 2.23.1, a malicious SSH server can write arbitrary files on the asyncssh SCP client's filesystem by sending filenames containing ../ traversal sequences because _parse_cd_args in scp.py returns server-provided names verbatim and _recv_files joins them to the destination path without enforcing the target directory boundary. This issue is fixed in version 2.23.1.
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ronf asyncssh Affected: < 2.23.1
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