# CVE-2026-54591: AsyncSSH: SCP Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Write

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3808, GHSA-2WXC-X7RJ-HG8F
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.23.1
- Published: 2026-07-08 · Updated: 2026-07-09

## Affected

- ronf asyncssh: fixed in 2.23.1
- asyncssh (PyPI): fixed in 2.23.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ronf asyncssh, asyncssh, upgrade to a fixed version (2.23.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/security/advisories/GHSA-2wxc-x7rj-hg8f
- https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/commit/d730803b8e4e94c20c7580d90f94d1e05f9f58de
- https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/releases/tag/v2.23.1

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