CVE-2026-74796

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74796
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74796.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-74796
Aliases
Published
2026-08-16T13:14:18.365Z
Modified
2026-08-19T03:31:22.519720501Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
OpenTofu before 1.11.7 Symlink Following Path Traversal
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-59"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/74xxx/CVE-2026-74796.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/opentofu/opentofu

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
398c818dcf617837724e3137e4682062574d1019
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.11.7"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "DESCRIPTION"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.10.0-alpha1
v1.10.0-alpha2
v1.10.0-beta1
v1.11.0
v1.11.0-beta1
v1.11.0-rc1
v1.11.0-rc2
v1.11.0-rc3
v1.11.0-rc4
v1.11.1
v1.11.2
v1.11.3
v1.11.4
v1.11.5
v1.11.6
v1.6.0-alpha1
v1.6.0-alpha3
v1.6.0-alpha4
v1.6.0-alpha5
v1.6.0-beta1
v1.6.0-beta2
v1.6.0-beta3
v1.6.0-beta4
v1.6.0-beta5
v1.6.0-rc1
v1.7.0-alpha1
v1.7.0-beta1
v1.8.0-alpha1
v1.8.0-beta1
v1.8.0-beta2
v1.9.0-alpha1
v1.9.0-alpha2
v1.9.0-beta1
v1.9.0-beta2

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-74796.json"