CVE-2026-59863: Microsoft Kiota

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Kiota: from 1.30.0, before 1.31.1 (fixed in 1.31.1); before 1.29.1 (fixed in 1.29.1)

Published 2026-07-16. Last modified 2026-08-17.