Reporter: Cavan Loughran, Celvex Group Inc. Summary The fix for CVE-2026-46439 (3.12.2 / 4.0.3) removed the recursive re-render loop in trestle/core/commands/author/jinja.py render_template, but the custom include tags in trestle/core/jinja/tags.py (MDSectionInclude, MDCleanInclude) still re-parse the CONTENT of an included markdown file as a Jinja2 template via Parser(self.environment, ).parse() in a plain (non-sandboxed) jinja2.Environment. Because the trestle markdown writers (ssp_io.py SSPMarkdownWriter, docs_control_writer.py DocsControlWriter) write OSCAL prose / component-description fields verbatim (the {{ …
At a glance Actor: attacker who controls the -o/–output argument to trestle author {catalog,profile,ssp}-generate (e.g. via a CI pipeline that derives the output directory from repository-controlled data) Primitive: attacker-controlled –output value reaches trestle_root / args.output write sink with only is_directory_name_allowed() (parts[0]-only task-name-collision check), not the PathSecurityValidator.validate_local_path() guard added by the CVE-2026-46345 fix Impact: arbitrary-location file write outside the trestle workspace as the process owner (8.4 High; conservative C:N variant 7.7, …
A Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability exists in multiple locations of trestle's Jinja2 rendering pipeline due to a systemic pattern: untrusted data is re-parsed as Jinja2 template source code without sandboxing. This advisory tracks the root cause across all affected code paths. The core anti-pattern is: treating runtime data (rendered output, included Markdown content, LUT values) as Jinja2 template source code and passing it to Parser.parse() or an equivalent rendering …
compliance-trestle 4.0.3 (latest) ships an URLSecurityValidator in trestle/core/remote/security.py to block SSRF to loopback / link-local / cloud-metadata endpoints from the HTTPSFetcher and SFTPFetcher remote-fetch paths. The allowlist is incomplete and can be bypassed by four equivalent address representations that resolve to the same blocked host but evade the validator's checks: IPv4-mapped IPv6 literals ([::ffff:169.254.169.254], [::ffff:127.0.0.1], [::ffff:10.0.0.1]) are returned by socket.getaddrinfo as IPv6Address objects; IPv6Address in IPv4Network('169.254.0.0/16') returns False, so the …
A source code audit led to the discovery of three significant security vulnerabilities in the trestle/core/remote/cache.py module. Finding 1 (Critical): SSRF (CWE-918) The HTTPSFetcher._do_fetch() method passes a user-supplied URL directly to requests.get() without validation. This allows an attacker to perform Server-Side Request Forgery, targeting internal services or cloud metadata endpoints (e.g., 169.254.169.254). Per rule 4.2.11 of the CVE CNA rules Finding 1 will be addressed in this advisory, while findings …
A High severity Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability exists in the trestle author jinja command. The command recursively evaluates rendered templates, allowing an attacker to achieve arbitrary command execution with privileges of the running process by injecting malicious payloads into data fields (such as SSP documents or Lookup Tables). The vulnerability does not require attacker control of the template itself. Only attacker-controlled input data rendered into a trusted template is …
The compliance-trestle library's profile import mechanism resolves trestle:// URIs and relative file paths by joining them with trestle_root and calling .resolve(), but performs no boundary check to ensure the resolved path stays within the trestle workspace. An attacker can craft a malicious OSCAL profile YAML with imports[].href containing path traversal sequences to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem. Three attack vectors confirmed: PT-001: trestle://../../etc/passwd — via trestle:// URI scheme …
Relevant Products/Components: trestle/core/commands/author/jinja.py trestle author jinja
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. Attack chain: Malicious OSCAL profile → …