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CVE-2026-74796: opentofu 0 to before 1.11.7
CVE-2026-74796. CVSS 3.1 base score 6.1 (MEDIUM, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00339 (percentile 0.25173), scored 2026-10-06.
Affected technology
opentofu · 0 to before 1.11.7
opentofu
Description’s affected range: before 1.11.7 fails to validate existing symlinks in the provider cache directory during initialization
Component: Not specified by the source
Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 4.0): Network (remote) · No privileges required · Passive user interaction
What an attacker can do
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. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 7.0/10) rates confidentiality and availability impact as none; integrity impact as high.
- CWE
- CWE-59
- CCR priority
- 24.5 /100 (P4)
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N · Vendor/CNA
- EPSS
- 0.00339 · percentile 0.25284 · 2026-10-08
- KEV
- no
Provenance
- FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-08 17:36:22.845483+00:00 UTC
- NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-08 17:32:11.049884+00:00 UTC
Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-74796.html