Critical
Security advisory
The SSH server implementation of AsyncSSH before 1.12.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-7749
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The SSH server implementation of AsyncSSH before 1.12.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests. A customized SSH client can simply skip the authentication step.
osv:CVE-2018-7749
Complete source record
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