CVE-2026-45725
HighCVSS 7.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs
Summary
compliance-trestle before versions 3.12.2 and 4.0.3 has a vulnerability in the remote fetching cache mechanism (HTTPSFetcher and SFTPFetcher) where the local cache file path is constructed 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.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can write arbitrary files to the filesystem, potentially leading to server compromise or modification of critical configuration files.
Recommendation
Update compliance-trestle to version 3.12.3 or 4.0.3 (or later) immediately.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.