Medium severity · published Aug 13, 2026
CVE-2026-45774
compliance-trestle Profile Import has an Arbitrary File Read via trestle:// URI and Relative Path Traversal
6.9
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
compliance-trestle is a tooling platform for managing compliance as code. Prior to versions 3.12.2 and 4.0.3, the compliance-trestle library's profile import mechanism resolves `trestle://` URIs and relative file paths by joining them with `trestle_root` and calling `.resolve()`, but performs no boundary check to ensure the resolved path stays within the trestle workspace. An attacker can craft a malicious OSCAL profile YAML with `imports[].href` containing path traversal sequences to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem. Versions 3.12.3 and 4.0.3 patch the issue.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 46% 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-2026-45774
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45774
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/5c65c5926fe7ca908b9c1d281f904e7d97ba8310
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/d00a0c2f702c24f7016009fbd626036f5c46f47b
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-mj4x-vf5c-5xg8
github.com
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/compliance-trestle/PYSEC-2026-2426.yaml
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