Security Advisory

CVE-2026-74796

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-16 13:14:18
Last updated 2026-08-17 15:30:59
Assigner VulnCheck
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.