High severity · published Aug 25, 2026
CVE-2026-54757
Trestle has Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) via Recursive Template Re-evaluation of Untrusted Data
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Compliance-trestle (Trestle) is a Python SDK and command-line tool for managing OSCAL compliance documents. In versions before 3.12.4 and versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.3, Trestle is vulnerable to server-side template injection that can lead to remote code execution. This occurs because the MDCleanInclude and MDSectionInclude Jinja2 tags re-parse untrusted Markdown content as template source code using a non-sandboxed jinja2.Environment. An attacker who controls content that Trestle renders, such as a crafted workspace Markdown file, a third-party SSP document, or a YAML lookup-table value, can inject a Jinja2 expression that traverses Python object internals to execute arbitrary operating system commands in the context of the Trestle process. This issue is fixed in versions 3.12.4 and 4.1.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 30% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
compliance-trestle · oscal-compass
< 3.12.4; >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54757
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54757
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/0f82d19bd42f9cc0f1b3acd7fc3f6dafe3b6ae10
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/5335ff873a2a68eb7de43df029bea09cadff22fd
github.com
https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-jw39-3688-r4rx
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