FKIE_CVE-2026-57171

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-26 05:18 - Updated: 2026-08-27 17:18
Severity
7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
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, the catalog-generate, profile-generate, and ssp-generate author commands write generated Markdown to an attacker-influenced output path without path-traversal validation, allowing arbitrary file write outside the Trestle workspace. These commands join the user-supplied output argument onto the Trestle root and write to the result, but guard it only with an is_directory_name_allowed() task-name-collision check rather than the PathSecurityValidator.validate_local_path() guard used by the jinja command, so an absolute path or one containing traversal sequences escapes the workspace and writes files under an attacker-chosen location as the invoking process owner. The security boundary is crossed when a trusted CI job, shared service, or wrapper derives the output argument from repository-controlled, tenant-controlled, or otherwise untrusted data while expecting output to stay inside the workspace. When --force-overwrite is used, the selected output directory is first recursively deleted, extending the primitive to destruction of an attacker-chosen directory tree and enabling indirect code execution by overwriting files a pipeline later runs. This issue is fixed in versions 3.12.4 and 4.1.0.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/commit/37ed44f5f2e074202c8eb7c2f203c05d19461cdc
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/releases/tag/v4.1.0
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-4q5v-7g7x-j79w
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/security/advisories/GHSA-r4vp-3vw6-r2x5
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-08-27T17:18:52.510",
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