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High · 7.1 CVE-2026-45725 EUVD-2026-58356GHSA-g3vg-vx23-3858PYSEC-2026-2424

compliance-trestle Remote Fetching Mechanism has an Arbitrary File Write via Cache Path Traversal

Published Aug 13, 2026 · Updated Aug 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
oscal-compass compliance-trestle < 3.12.2, >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI compliance-trestle >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3 4.0.3 GHSA-g3vg-vx23-3858
PyPI compliance-trestle < 3.12.2 3.12.2 GHSA-g3vg-vx23-3858
PyPI compliance-trestle < 3.12.2 · >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3 3.12.2, 4.0.3 PYSEC-2026-2424

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