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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-06-15 | Published 2026-07-08 | Updated 2026-07-08 | Assigner GitHub_M




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

Problem types

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

Product status

< 2.23.1
affected

References

github.com/...yncssh/security/advisories/GHSA-2wxc-x7rj-hg8f

github.com/...ommit/d730803b8e4e94c20c7580d90f94d1e05f9f58de

github.com/ronf/asyncssh/releases/tag/v2.23.1

cve.org (CVE-2026-54591)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-54591)

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