CVE-2026-45774

compliance-trestle Profile Import has an Arbitrary File Read via trestle:// URI and Relative Path Traversal

MEDIUM
6.9
CVSS Score
Published: August 13, 2026 at 07:26 PM UTC
Updated: September 18, 2026 at 08:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCompliance Trestle

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Severity
MEDIUM6.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
PoC

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 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.

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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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

6.9MEDIUMGitHub_M
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Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-22

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