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CVE-2026-57171: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in oscal-compass compliance-trestle

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-57171cvecve-2026-57171cwe-22
Published: 08/25/2026 (08/25/2026, 23:39:16 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: oscal-compass
Product: compliance-trestle

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, 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.

CVSS v3.1

Score 7.7high

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-06-24T01:47:55.285Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a8e2ad4acd9273b49dc8688

Added to database: 08/25/2026, 23:52:52 UTC

Last updated: 08/26/2026, 01:07:01 UTC

Views: 4

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