Description
Compliance-trestle (Trestle) is a Python SDK and command-line tool for managing OSCAL compliance documents. In versions prior to 3.12.4 and 4.0.0 through 4.0.3, the custom Jinja2 include tags mdsection_include and md_clean_include re-parse the content of an included Markdown file as Jinja2 template code in a non-sandboxed environment, allowing server-side template injection that can lead to arbitrary code execution. The MDSectionInclude and MDCleanInclude tags in Trestle/core/jinja/tags.py pass included file content to Parser(self.environment, ...).parse(), splicing it into the host template's compilation, and the environment is a plain jinja2.Environment rather than a SandboxedEnvironment, so any expressions in the file are evaluated with full access to the usual SSTI gadget chain. Because Trestle's Markdown writers emit OSCAL prose and component-description fields verbatim, applying delimiter neutralization only to parameter tables, attacker-controlled OSCAL data such as a control statement, part prose, or component description containing Jinja2 syntax flows into an included Markdown file and is executed when the include tag re-parses it. This issue is fixed in version 4.1.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| oscal-compass | compliance-trestle | < 3.12.4, >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.0 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | compliance-trestle | < 3.12.4 | 3.12.4 | GHSA-mr95-65j8-9mxp |
| PyPI | compliance-trestle | >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.0 | 4.1.0 | GHSA-mr95-65j8-9mxp |
| PyPI | compliance-trestle | < 3.12.4 · >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.0 | 3.12.4, 4.1.0 | PYSEC-2026-4029 |