CVE-2026-45725

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

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Aug 13, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path

Affected Products

ProductVersions
compliance-trestleoscal-compass
  • < 3.12.2Affected
  • >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3Affected

References

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