CVE-2026-45725

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

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 13, 2026 at 07:22 PM UTC
Updated: September 18, 2026 at 08:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCompliance Trestle

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 3.12.2v < 4.0.3
Affected range stops below 3.12.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.0.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

7.1HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-73

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