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Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Aug 16, 2026· Updated Sep 8, 2026

CVE-2026-74796

CVE-2026-74796

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.

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