CVE-2026-59863

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.5, Kiota honored a poisoned .kiota/workspace.json workspace configuration without validating per-client or per-plugin outputPath values during kiota client generate and kiota plugin generate, allowing a malicious repository or pull request to use absolute paths, rooted POSIX / paths, UNC \\ or // paths, Windows drive X:\ paths, or .. traversal segments to write generated client files outside the workspace root on a developer or CI host. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.5.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/commit/4049327872db7846ace35c9003774d3e3878e4e9
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/7885
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.32.5
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/security/advisories/GHSA-4rj6-vrwv-wr8m

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-07-16 15:16

Updated : 2026-08-17 15:16

NVD link : CVE-2026-59863

Mitre link : CVE-2026-59863

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-59863

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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