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7.0 HIGH

CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): High (H)
Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): None (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): High (H)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)

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Created suggestion 1 month ago

OpenTofu before 1.11.7 Symlink Following Path Traversal

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.