CVE-2026-54591 PUBLISHED

AsyncSSH: SCP Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Write

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.06.2026 Published: 08.07.2026 Updated: 09.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.1

Product Status

Vendor ronf
Product asyncssh
Versions
  • Version < 2.23.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE