Threat Intelligence Database

CVE-2026-105796 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Kiota, an OpenAPI-based HTTP client code generator. Versions from 0.5.0 up to but not including 1.35.0 are affected. The issue arises because Kiota's Java and PHP documentation-comment sanitizers improperly handle block-comment terminators, allowing attacker-controlled OpenAPI text to be injected outside generated documentation comments. Exploitation requires a developer or build pipeline to generate and compile or load the maliciously crafted source code, leading to code execution in the consuming application or build environment. This vulnerability is fixed in version 1.35.0.

### Impact When generating an API plugin manifest from an attacker-controlled or compromised OpenAPI description, Kiota copies `x-ai-capabilities.response_semantics.oauth_card_path` into the manifest without validating that it is a safe package-relative file reference. An attacker can supply parent-directory traversal, rooted paths, or absolute URIs instead of a card file within the plugin package. The unsafe reference is propagated into the generated manifest. Its security effect depends on the downstream host's handling of the reference when the plugin is packaged and deployed. This is not local code execution or a file read performed by Kiota merely during generation. A consuming host that resolves the untrusted reference can cross the intended package boundary or use an unintended authentication card. ### Affected versions The affected NuGet packages are `Microsoft.OpenApi.Kiota` and `Microsoft.OpenApi.Kiota.Builder`, starting with version 1.25.1, which introduced this manifest field. The field remains unvalidated through version 1.34.1, including the separate 1.29.1 security-backport release. Version 1.35.0 fixes the issue. ### Patches Upgrade to Kiota 1.35.0 or later and regenerate affected plugin manifests. Kiota now applies the existing safe-file-reference validator to `oauth_card_path`, drops unsafe references, and emits a warning. Valid relative card paths remain supported. - Fix: https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/8055 - Fixed release: https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.35.0 ### Workarounds Generate plugins only from trusted, integrity-protected OpenAPI descriptions. Before packaging or deployment, review generated manifests and remove any `oauth_card_path` that is not a safe relative reference confined to the plugin package. Do not rely on validation of sibling manifest fields to validate this field. ### Related advisories GHSA-4jwf-m4wg-8p66 and GHSA-p5rm-jg5c-8c77 cover `static_template.file`. Their fixes do not enforce validation at the separate `oauth_card_path` emission site.

CVE-2026-73851 is a path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Kiota affecting versions prior to 1.29.1. It allows an attacker controlling the OpenAPI description to supply crafted file references that resolve outside the intended plugin package, potentially causing unauthorized file inclusion or disclosure. Initial mitigations rejected unsafe paths based on raw strings but failed to decode percent-encoded or obfuscated inputs, allowing bypasses. Subsequent fixes decode inputs before validation and reject control characters and Unicode homoglyphs. Users should upgrade to the first release after version 1.33.0 that includes these fixes. Workarounds include generating plugins only from trusted OpenAPI descriptions and reviewing manifests for unsafe file references.

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.5, Kiota resolved OpenAPI $ref values by fetching remote http(s) URLs and reading local absolute or out-of-tree file paths, allowing `kiota generate` on an attacker-controlled or attacker-influenced description to perform build-time SSRF, remote file inclusion, and local file inclusion by inlining external schemas such as REMOTE_KIOTA_PROP or Leaked into generated clients. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.5 by AllowedExternalOriginsStreamLoader and the --allowed-external-origins option.

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.

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.5, `kiota plugin add` and `kiota plugin generate` (with `-t APIPlugin`) emitted attacker-controlled static_template.file values from x-ai-adaptive-card and x-ai-capabilities into generated Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams plugin manifests without path validation, allowing ../, absolute, rooted, UNC, Windows drive, or URI paths in response_semantics.static_template.file to cause path traversal or out-of-package file inclusion when the generated plugin was deployed. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.5.

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.5, `kiota info` read x-ms-kiota-info.languagesInformation.<language>.dependencyInstallCommand plus dependency name and version values from an OpenAPI description and presented the spec-supplied command as Kiota's recommended install command, allowing an attacker-controlled or compromised description to cause command injection when the suggested command was run manually or through the Kiota VS Code extension's kiota info --json dependency-install flow. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.5.

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.

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.4, Kiota's PHP generator embedded OpenAPI description, default fields, property names, and other schema-derived strings into PHP double-quoted literals through SanitizeDoubleQuote() in Writers/StringExtensions.cs without escaping $, allowing attacker-controlled ${...}, $var, or {$obj->prop} interpolation constructs to inject arbitrary PHP code into generated model and request-builder classes. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.4.

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.0, Kiota's Ruby generator embedded OpenAPI default fields, property names, and other schema-derived strings through CodeMethodWriter.cs and SanitizeForQuotedLiteral() in Writers/StringExtensions.cs into Ruby double-quoted literals without escaping #, allowing attacker-controlled #{expr}, #$var, or #@var interpolation markers to inject arbitrary Ruby code into generated model classes. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.0.