CVE-2026-74796: Opentofu

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Opentofu Opentofu: before 1.11.7 (fixed in 1.11.7)

Published 2026-08-16. Last modified 2026-10-08.