CVE-2026-45725
compliance-trestle Remote Fetching Mechanism has an Arbitrary File Write via Cache Path Traversal
Record summary
CVE-2026-45725 has a selected CVSS score of 7.1 (high).
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 and versions
2| Product | Source | Version range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
compliance-trestleBrowse oscal-compass / compliance-trestle | CVE List | < 3.12.2 | affected |
| >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3 | affected | ||
compliance-trestleBrowse PyPI / compliance-trestle | GitHub Advisory | 4.0.0 to < 4.0.3 · Fixed in 4.0.3 | affected |
| Before 3.12.2 · Fixed in 3.12.2 | affected |