CVE-2026-0830 describes a critical command injection vulnerability in the Kiro GitLab Merge-Request helper within Kiro IDE versions prior to 0.6.18. This flaw allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by crafting malicious workspace folder names, which are then processed when a user opens such a workspace. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a local attack vector (AV:L) requiring user interaction (UI:R) but low attack complexity (AC:L). Successful exploitation could lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Currently, there is no known active exploitation, and public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable. Despite this, the vulnerability has garnered some community attention and media coverage, indicating its potential significance. Users are strongly advised to update to the latest Kiro IDE version to mitigate this risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0, < 0.6.18CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:amazon:kiro_ide:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 0.6.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:amazon:kiro_ide:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.