MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-74796
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.
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 6.1
- epss_score
- 0.00229
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-74796
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-16T14:16:57.727
- last_modified
- 2026-09-08T20:28:37.587
- epss_percentile
- 0.13593
Related Entities (3)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
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