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CVE-2026-59860 (GCVE-0-2026-59860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-16 14:34 – Updated: 2026-08-17 15:01

Title

Kiota: XML Doc-Comment Newline Breakout Code Injection

Summary

Kiota is an OpenAPI based HTTP Client code generator. Prior to 1.29.1 and 1.32.3, Kiota is affected by a code-generation injection vulnerability in the C# XML documentation-comment sink (the description, externalDocs label, and externalDocs link fields emitted as /// … comments). When text from an OpenAPI description is written into single-line XML doc comments without stripping newline and Unicode line-terminator characters, an attacker can break out of the /// comment line and inject additional code into generated C# clients. This issue is fixed in version 1.29.1 and 1.32.3.

Severity

8.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-17 03:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 8081 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/security/advis…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/7831	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/commit/ebb632d…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.32.3	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
microsoft	kiota	Affected: >= 1.30.0, < 1.31.1 Affected: < 1.29.1	guessed

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FKIE_CVE-2026-59860

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-16 15:16 - Updated: 2026-10-24 21:10

Severity

8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

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	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/7831
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.32.3
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/security/advisories/GHSA-3hrf-2gc2-mx32
	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/security/advisories/GHSA-3hrf-2gc2-mx32

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-3HRF-2GC2-MX32

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-24 15:30 – Updated: 2026-08-17 14:52

Summary

Microsoft Kiota: XML Doc-Comment Newline Breakout Code Injection

Details

Summary

Kiota versions prior to 1.32.3 and 1.29.1 are affected by a code-generation injection vulnerability in the C# XML documentation-comment sink (the description, externalDocs label, and externalDocs link fields emitted as /// … comments).

When text from an OpenAPI description is written into single-line XML doc comments without stripping newline and Unicode line-terminator characters, an attacker can break out of the /// comment line and inject additional code into generated C# clients.

Impact and Preconditions

This issue is only practically exploitable when:

the OpenAPI description used for generation is from an untrusted source, or
a normally trusted OpenAPI description has been compromised/tampered with.

The injected code is compiled (and may execute) when the developer or CI builds the generated client. If you only generate from trusted, integrity-protected API descriptions, risk is significantly reduced.

Affected Versions

Affected: all versions < 1.29.1, >= 1.30.0, < 1.32.3
Fixed: 1.29.1, 1.32.3, and later

Illustrative Exploit Example

Example OpenAPI fragment (malicious description)

openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Exploit Demo
  version: 1.0.0
  description: |-
    Legitimate summary text
    public static class Pwned { static Pwned() { System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("calc.exe"); } }

The newline inside description (also exploitable via \r, U+0085, U+2028, U+2029) terminates the doc-comment line.

Example generated C# snippet before fix (illustrative)

/// Legitimate summary text
public static class Pwned { static Pwned() { System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("calc.exe"); } }

The injected payload escapes the intended /// comment context and introduces attacker-controlled statements in generated code.

Note: this exploit is not limited to the description field, but may also impact the externalDocs label and link text and other doc-comment-derived locations.

Remediation

Upgrade Kiota to 1.32.3 or later.
Regenerate/refresh existing generated clients as a precaution:

Refreshing generated clients ensures previously generated vulnerable code is replaced with hardened output. The fix (PR microsoft/kiota#7831) strips \r, \n, \u0085, \u2028, \u2029 (and normalizes tabs) from description, label, and link text before emitting doc comments.

Severity

8.7 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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        "name": "Microsoft.OpenApi.Kiota"
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