compliance-trestle is a tooling platform for managing compliance as code. Prior to versiions 3.12.2 and 4.0.3, the compliance-trestle library's remote fetching cache mechanism (HTTPSFetcher and SFTPFetcher) constructs the local cache file path from the URL path component without sanitizing path traversal sequences (`../`). When a remote OSCAL profile references a URL with traversal in its path, the HTTP response body is written to a location outside the intended cache directory, enabling arbitrary file write with attacker-controlled content to the filesystem. Versions 3.12.3 and 4.0.3 patch the issue.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact None

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
oscal-compass compliance-trestle affected
Version Status Constraints
< 3.12.2 affected —
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3 affected —

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Advisories
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g3vg-vx23-3858 compliance-trestle Remote Fetching Mechanism has an Arbitrary File Write via Cache Path Traversal
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https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/89f4e53d159e8ff901da4d7c3b51c9556bd32ec0 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/9abc492329fcc8d0557182317de9bde854385da3 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-g3vg-vx23-3858 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/compliance-trestle/PYSEC-2026-2424.yaml cve-icon cve-icon
History

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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Description compliance-trestle is a tooling platform for managing compliance as code. Prior to versiions 3.12.2 and 4.0.3, the compliance-trestle library's remote fetching cache mechanism (HTTPSFetcher and SFTPFetcher) constructs the local cache file path from the URL path component without sanitizing path traversal sequences (`../`). When a remote OSCAL profile references a URL with traversal in its path, the HTTP response body is written to a location outside the intended cache directory, enabling arbitrary file write with attacker-controlled content to the filesystem. Versions 3.12.3 and 4.0.3 patch the issue.
Title compliance-trestle Remote Fetching Mechanism has an Arbitrary File Write via Cache Path Traversal
Weaknesses CWE-73
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T19:22:59.118Z

Reserved: 2026-05-13T05:51:48.666Z

Link: CVE-2026-45725

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T20:17:22.027

Modified: 2026-08-13T20:17:22.027

Link: CVE-2026-45725

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Updated: 2026-08-13T20:45:02Z

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