# CVE-2026-54757: Trestle has Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) via Recursive Template Re-evaluation of Untrusted Data

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3817, GHSA-JW39-3688-R4RX
- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.12.4, 4.1.0
- Published: 2026-08-25 · Updated: 2026-08-26

## Affected

- oscal-compass compliance-trestle: fixed in 3.12.4; from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.1.0
- compliance-trestle (PyPI): fixed in 3.12.4; from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.1.0
- compliance-trestle (PyPI): fixed in 3.12.4
- compliance-trestle (PyPI): from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.1.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on oscal-compass compliance-trestle, compliance-trestle, upgrade to a fixed version (3.12.4, 4.1.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-jw39-3688-r4rx
- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/0f82d19bd42f9cc0f1b3acd7fc3f6dafe3b6ae10
- https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/5335ff873a2a68eb7de43df029bea09cadff22fd

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