CVE-2026-59866

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

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Jul 16, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 7, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.3 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kiotamicrosoft
  • >= 1.30.0, < 1.31.1Affected
  • < 1.29.1Affected

References

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