CVE-2026-59864: Microsoft Kiota: Path/URL injection into generated Copilot plugin manifest via x-ai-* extensions
kiota plugin add / kiota plugin generate (with -t APIPlugin) emits an attacker-controlled static_template.file path from the AI-plugin extensions (x-ai-adaptive-card, x-ai-capabilities) verbatim, with no path validation, into the generated Microsoft 365 Copilot / Teams plugin manifest (<name>-apiplugin.json). An attacker-controlled or compromised OpenAPI description can therefore embed a ../ / absolute path into the manifest’s response_semantics.static_template.file, yielding a path traversal (CWE-22) / out-of-package file inclusion (CWE-829) that is resolved by the AI host when the generated plugin is deployed.
Confirmed on Kiota 1.32.4 (KIOTA_CONFIG_PREVIEW=true, the self-contained linux-x64 release binary).
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-4jwf-m4wg-8p66
- github.com/microsoft/kiota/commit/9a185994a4e549b7bba3cc2beffb9736aa902e79
- github.com/microsoft/kiota/pull/7892
- github.com/microsoft/kiota/releases/tag/v1.32.5
- github.com/microsoft/kiota/security/advisories/GHSA-4jwf-m4wg-8p66
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59864
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