A security vulnerability has been detected in jbardin scp.py up to 0.16.1. The impacted element is the function _recv_file/_recv_pushd of the component SCP Receive Handler. The manipulation leads to path traversal. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Upgrading to version 0.16.2 is sufficient to resolve this issue. The identifier of the patch is 42fc3aaa71411daed60544e3b40179c1038bed5d. Upgrading the affected component is advised. The vendor was contacted early, responded in a very professional manner and quickly released a fixed version of the affected product.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.3NVD modified 2026-10-13 13:29
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://github.com/jbardin/scp.py/
- https://github.com/jbardin/scp.py/commit/42fc3aaa71411daed60544e3b40179c1038bed5d
- https://github.com/jbardin/scp.py/issues/206
- https://github.com/jbardin/scp.py/releases/tag/v0.16.2
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-109152
- https://vuldb.com/submit/978646
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/416886
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/416886/cti