ronf AsyncSSH up to 2.23.0 Path Expansion server.py expanduser escape output

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A vulnerability was found in ronf AsyncSSH up to 2.23.0. It has been declared as problematic. The affected element is the function expanduser of the file server.py of the component Path Expansion Handler. The manipulation results in escape output. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-54590. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in ronf AsyncSSH up to 2.23.0. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function expanduser of the file server.py of the component Path Expansion Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a escape output vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-116. The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

AsyncSSH is a Python package which provides an asynchronous client and server implementation of the SSHv2 protocol on top of the Python asyncio framework. Version 2.23.0 contains an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-45309 in SSHServerConfig._set_tokens that blocks /, , and .. before %u substitution in AuthorizedKeysFile but does not block a leading ~ or ${ENV}, allowing later expansion in _expand_val and Path(filename).expanduser() to escape the intended authorized-keys directory. This issue is fixed in version 2.23.1.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-54590 since 06/15/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 2.23.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• ronf

Name

• AsyncSSH

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23.0

Website

• Product: https://github.com/ronf/asyncssh/

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