CVE-2026-109152
A security vulnerability has been detected in jbardin scp.py up to 0.16.1.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.46%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 4.0
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.46% probability · 40th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS moved from 0.6% on 14 October 2026 to 0.5% on 26 October 2026.
References
- 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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.