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CVE-2026-59867 (GCVE-0-2026-59867)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-16 14:48 – Updated: 2026-08-17 15:03

Title

Kiota: Generation-time SSRF + remote/local file inclusion via unrestricted $ref

Summary

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.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-16 15:35 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

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/7888	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/commit/cccd798…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.32.5	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-2026-59867

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-16 16:19 - Updated: 2026-10-24 20:10

Severity

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
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	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/7888
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.32.5
	security-advisories@github.com	https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/security/advisories/GHSA-rg4h-fpcp-2qm8

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-RG4H-FPCP-2QM8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-24 16:10 – Updated: 2026-08-17 14:56

Summary

Microsoft Kiota: Generation-time SSRF + remote/local file inclusion via unrestricted $ref

Details

Summary

Microsoft Kiota resolved OpenAPI $refs by fetching remote http(s) URLs and reading local files (including absolute / out-of-tree paths), inlining the referenced schema into the generated client. Running kiota generate on a spec whose $ref pointed at an attacker/internal URL or an arbitrary local file yielded SSRF, remote file inclusion, and local file inclusion. Verified on 1.32.3 / 1.32.4.

Details

$ref: http://attacker/internal-evil.json#/... → build host fetches the URL (SSRF) and inlines the remote schema (RFI); confirmed property REMOTE_KIOTA_PROP in the generated client.
$ref: /abs/path.json#/... or ../../secret.json#/... → Kiota reads the out-of-tree local file and inlines its schema (LFI); confirmed Leaked schema in the generated client. Resolution is transitive across nesting levels.

Kiota escapes its output sinks (comments/strings/identifiers), so attacker-controlled remote/local content cannot break out into code — no RCE. The chain stops at SSRF + RFI + LFI.

Impact

Build-time SSRF (CWE-918) from the developer or CI host, disclosure of arbitrary local files (CWE-22), and inclusion of untrusted remote content (CWE-829), from running the generator on an attacker-controlled or attacker-influenced OpenAPI description. No code execution. Notable because Kiota is otherwise the hardened generator (it resists the code-injection class).

The relevant threat is not "change the generated output" (an attacker who fully controls the description can already do that) but the side effects on the build host: outbound requests from inside the CI network (cloud metadata, internal-only services) and reads of local files the attacker never possessed, whose contents are then inlined into the generated — and typically committed/published — client. It also bypasses controls that review the description document but not externally-referenced content.

Patches

Fixed in 1.29.1 and 1.32.5 (https://github.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/7888). External reference resolution is now default-deny: a new AllowedExternalOriginsStreamLoader refuses to load any external $ref — remote http(s) URLs and local file paths alike — unless its origin/path is explicitly allow-listed. A new --allowed-external-origins parameter (added to the commands that load OpenAPI descriptions) opts specific origins back in, accepting *, full URIs, URI patterns, full paths, relative paths, or path patterns (wildcards supported). With no allow-list entries, external references are not loaded at all.

Remediation

Upgrade to Kiota 1.29.1, 1.32.5, or later. External references now require explicit opt-in via --allowed-external-origins; add only trusted origins/paths.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

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        "name": "Microsoft.OpenApi.Kiota"
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}

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