CVE-2026-45725 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 13.08.2026 Updated: 13.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Product Status

Vendor oscal-compass
Product compliance-trestle
Versions
  • Version < 3.12.2 is affected
  • Version >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path CWE