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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-57170 EUVD-2026-66211GHSA-mr95-65j8-9mxpPYSEC-2026-4029

Trestle SSTI in Jinja2 include tags allows arbitrary code execution (Incomplete fix of CVE-2026-46439)

Published Aug 25, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
oscal-compass compliance-trestle < 3.12.4, >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
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

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