# CVE-2026-45725: compliance-trestle Remote Fetching Mechanism has an Arbitrary File Write via Cache Path Traversal

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-2424, GHSA-G3VG-VX23-3858
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.12.2, 4.0.3
- Published: 2026-08-13 · Updated: 2026-08-17

## Affected

- oscal-compass compliance-trestle: fixed in 3.12.2; from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.0.3
- compliance-trestle (PyPI): fixed in 3.12.2; from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.0.3
- compliance-trestle (PyPI): from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.0.3
- compliance-trestle (PyPI): fixed in 3.12.2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on oscal-compass compliance-trestle, compliance-trestle, upgrade to a fixed version (3.12.2, 4.0.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-g3vg-vx23-3858
- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/89f4e53d159e8ff901da4d7c3b51c9556bd32ec0
- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/9abc492329fcc8d0557182317de9bde854385da3
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/compliance-trestle/PYSEC-2026-2424.yaml

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