CVE-2026-74796Disclosure

LOWCVSS 7.0 · HIGH

Signal is active with 2 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD 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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0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Other references

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-59

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Threat summary

2 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

Technical details provided in 2 signals
Disclosure: 2 classified signals
2 total mentions across 1 day

Deep dive

Activity timeline2 mentions / 1d

Signal classification1 categories

Disclosure

2100.0%

Referenced assets2 URLs

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Full discourse2 posts

Infoflowcloud@infoflowcloud46d
Disclosure
🚨*CVE* CVE-2026-74796 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… https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74796 ----- Traducción: CVE-2026-74796 Ope… https://infoflow.cloud`
Post summary
The tweet announces CVE-2026-74796, noting a symlink validation flaw in OpenTofu before 1.11.7 and linking to the CVE record.
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CVE@CVEnew46d
Disclosure
CVE-2026-74796 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… https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74796
Post summary
The excerpt outlines CVE‑2026‑74796, explaining how OpenTofu fails to validate existing symlinks in the provider cache directory, allowing malicious symlink placement, but it does not provide a PoC, exploit code, patch, or evidence of active exploitation.
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