CVE-2026-54591
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-22
Path Traversal
Publication date:
08/07/2026
Last modified:
10/07/2026
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
8.10
Severity 3.x
HIGH



