CVE-2026-54591 — AsyncSSH: SCP Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Write
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 mal…
Published: 2026-07-08 · CVSS: 8.1 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7