High severity · published Jan 9, 2026
CVE-2026-0830
Command Injection in Kiro GitLab Merge Request Helper
7.8
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Processing specially crafted workspace folder names could allow for arbitrary command injection in the Kiro GitLab Merge-Request helper in Kiro IDE before version 0.6.18 when opening maliciously crafted workspaces.
To mitigate, users should update to the latest version.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 73% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kiro IDE · AWS
before 0.6.18 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0830
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0830
Vendor Advisory
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-001-AWS/
Release Notes
https://kiro.dev/changelog/spec-correctness-and-cli/
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