Microsoft Kiota emitted the x-ms-kiota-info extension's clientClassName or clientNamespaceName value
raw, with no identifier or path sanitization, as both the generated client's class/namespace name
and part of the generated output path. When kiota generate is run without -c/--class-name — the
zero-config workflow that x-ms-kiota-info is explicitly designed for (the API provider supplies the names in
the description so consumers don't have to) — an attacker who controls or tampers with the OpenAPI description
could therefore:
-o output directory — e.g.
clientClassName: "/var/www/html/shell"; andConfirmed on Kiota 1.32.4 (the self-contained linux-x64 release binary), i.e. after the earlier
writer-sink hardening — that fix escaped property/enum/default/serialization sinks but never sanitized the
provider-supplied clientClassName / clientNamespaceName.
clientClassName reached two unsanitized sinks (observed in the generated C#; the same raw emission occurred
for Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, and PHP):
# output FILENAME (CWE-22): clientClassName flows into the file path
clientClassName: "/abs/path/PWNED" -> /abs/path/PWNED.cs (written outside -o)
# class declaration (CWE-94): clientClassName flows verbatim into the type declaration
clientClassName: 'Pwn { } public class INJECTED { } public partial class RealClient'
-> public partial class Pwn { } public class INJECTED { } public partial class RealClient : ... { }
clientNamespaceName reached the analogous namespace/path sinks.
A developer or CI host generating a client from an attacker-controlled or compromised OpenAPI description
(without -c) could create/overwrite a generated source file at an attacker-influenced...
1.32.51.32.5Exploitability
AV:NAC:LAT:NPR:NUI:AVulnerable System
VC:NVI:HVA:LSubsequent System
SC:NSI:NSA:N7.0/CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N