CVE-2026-59866
Kiota generator allows path traversal and code injection from malicious OpenAPI specs.
Is CVE-2026-59866 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-59866 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-59866?
CVE-2026-59866 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.3. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-59866?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-59866. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-59866 affect?
CVE-2026-59866 affects Kiota < 1.32.5, CI/build pipelines generating clients from OpenAPI specs, Tools embedding Kiota codegen. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-59866?
Upgrade to Kiota >=1.32.5; avoid untrusted specs and sanitize inputs in CI.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Malicious OpenAPI spec can write files outside output dir and inject code into generated classes/namespaces, enabling RCE when generated code is built or executed.
Immediate action required
- affected>= 1.30.0 and < 1.31.1
- affected< 1.29.1
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.