High severity · published Aug 13, 2026
CVE-2026-45725
compliance-trestle Remote Fetching Mechanism has an Arbitrary File Write via Cache Path Traversal
7.1
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
compliance-trestle · oscal-compass
< 3.12.2; >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45725
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45725
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/89f4e53d159e8ff901da4d7c3b51c9556bd32ec0
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/9abc492329fcc8d0557182317de9bde854385da3
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-g3vg-vx23-3858
github.com
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/compliance-trestle/PYSEC-2026-2424.yaml
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