oscal-compass compliance-trestle up to 3.12.1/4.0.2 output path traversal

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A vulnerability has been found in oscal-compass compliance-trestle up to 3.12.1/4.0.2 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument output leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-46345. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in oscal-compass compliance-trestle up to 3.12.1/4.0.2. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument output with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

compliance-trestle is a tooling platform for managing compliance as code. Prior to versions 3.12.2 and 4.0.3, the `-o/--output` argument in `trestle author jinja` allows writing files outside the intended workspace. The application does not properly validate, `../`, `..\`, or absolute paths. This allows arbitrary file write to attacker-controlled locations. Versions 3.12.3 and 4.0.3 patch the issue.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-46345 since 05/13/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.12.2 or 4.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• oscal-compass

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• compliance-trestle

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• 3.12.0
• 3.12.1
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2

Website

• Product: https://github.com/oscal-compass/compliance-trestle/

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