CVE-2026-74796
A remote, anonymous attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in OpenTofu to disclose information, manipulate data, and trigger a denial-of-service condition.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenTofu enable information disclosure, data manipulation, and denial of service.
- Who is affected
- Users and CI/CD pipelines deploying OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code tool.
- Urgency
- Medium; information disclosure and DoS require remediation but are not as critical as RCE.
- Action
- Apply updates to OpenTofu to address CVE-2024-58375, CVE-2026-74796, and CVE-2026-74797.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.23% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 14% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (2)
- medium[NEW] [medium] OpenTofu: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-08-17
- mediumCVE-2026-74796: OpenTofu before 1.11.7 fails to validate existing symlinks in the provider cache directory dur…nvd · 2026-08-16
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