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CVE-2026-74796

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.1 Published: 2026-08-16 Modified: 2026-08-17

Description

OpenTofu before 1.11.7 fails to validate existing symlinks in the provider cache directory during initialization. Attackers can place a malicious symlink in a trusted working directory to cause tofu init to write provider package contents to arbitrary filesystem locations outside the working tree.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-59

References