Microsoft APM is an open-source, community-driven dependency manager for AI agents. Prior to 0.8.12, Microsoft APM normalizes marketplace plugins by copying plugin components referenced in plugin.json into .apm/. The manifest fields agents, skills, commands, and hooks are attacker-controlled, but the implementation does not enforce that those paths remain inside the plugin directory. A malicious plugin can therefore use absolute paths or ../ traversal paths to copy arbitrary readable host files or directories from the installer's machine during apm install. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.12.
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GHSA-xhrw-5qxx-jpwr | Microsoft APM CLI's plugin.json component paths escape plugin root and copy arbitrary host files during install |
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Fri, 15 May 2026 16:45:00 +0000
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| Description | Microsoft APM is an open-source, community-driven dependency manager for AI agents. Prior to 0.8.12, Microsoft APM normalizes marketplace plugins by copying plugin components referenced in plugin.json into .apm/. The manifest fields agents, skills, commands, and hooks are attacker-controlled, but the implementation does not enforce that those paths remain inside the plugin directory. A malicious plugin can therefore use absolute paths or ../ traversal paths to copy arbitrary readable host files or directories from the installer's machine during apm install. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.12. | |
| Title | Microsoft APM: plugin.json component paths escape plugin root and copy arbitrary host files during install | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 CWE-73 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-05-15T16:00:23.198Z
Reserved: 2026-05-07T15:30:10.875Z
Link: CVE-2026-44641
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-15T17:16:47.633
Modified: 2026-05-15T17:16:47.633
Link: CVE-2026-44641
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