CVE-2026-54591

NameCVE-2026-54591
DescriptionAsyncSSH 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1141818

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
python-asyncssh (PTS)bookworm2.10.1-2+deb12u2vulnerable
bookworm (security)2.10.1-2+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie2.20.0-1vulnerable
sid, forky2.24.0-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
python-asyncsshsource(unstable)2.24.0-11141818

Notes

[trixie] - python-asyncssh <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/security/advisories/GHSA-2wxc-x7rj-hg8f
Fixed by: https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/commit/d730803b8e4e94c20c7580d90f94d1e05f9f58de (v2.23.1)

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