CVE-2026-54591

HIGH

AsyncSSH: SCP Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Write

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 23.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (1)
ronf/asyncssh < 2.23.1
Published Jul 08, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 09, 2026