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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g3vg-vx23-3858 compliance-trestle Remote Fetching Mechanism has an Arbitrary File Write via Cache Path Traversal
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Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Oscal-compass
Oscal-compass compliance-trestle
Vendors & Products Oscal-compass
Oscal-compass compliance-trestle

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title compliance-trestle Remote Fetching Mechanism has an Arbitrary File Write via Cache Path Traversal
Weaknesses CWE-73
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, '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'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T19:22:59.118Z

Reserved: 2026-05-13T05:51:48.666Z

Link: CVE-2026-45725

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T20:17:22.027

Modified: 2026-08-13T20:17:22.027

Link: CVE-2026-45725

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-14T09:30:44Z

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