Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-59866

CVE-2026-59866

microsoft kiota — Kiota: Arbitrary file write + code-injection via x-ms-kiota-info clientClassName and clientNamespaceName

Description · from the CVE record

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.5, Kiota emitted x-ms-kiota-info clientClassName and clientNamespaceName values without identifier or path sanitization as both generated client class or namespace names and generated output path components when `kiota generate` ran without -c/--class-name, allowing an attacker-controlled or compromised OpenAPI description to write generated source outside the -o output directory and inject arbitrary text into generated class or namespace declarations. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.5 by GenerationConfiguration.SanitizeClientClassName and SanitizeClientNamespaceName.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
kiota>= 1.30.0, < 1.31.1–CNA
kiota< 1.29.1–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/microsoft/kiota/security/advisories/GHSA-4vv7-jj25-4gh6refgithub.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/7884refgithub.com/microsoft/kiota/commit/dc812dbbf88ef7edf53a890d36b2f9d1460e947drefgithub.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.32.5