CVE-2026-45774
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.
What this means for your business
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.4% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 30% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- CVSS v4
- 6.9
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Assigned by
- security-advisories@github.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-09-18
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/5c65c5926fe7ca908b9c1d281f904e7d97ba8310
- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/d00a0c2f702c24f7016009fbd626036f5c46f47b
- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-mj4x-vf5c-5xg8
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/compliance-trestle/PYSEC-2026-2426.yaml
- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-mj4x-vf5c-5xg8