Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-0830 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-0830 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-0830?
- High severity, published 9 January 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- AWS Kiro IDE < 0.6.18.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-0830?
- A patch was published on 2026-01-09: Fixed in version 0.6.18 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-0830 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-0830?
- Check whether you run Amazon AWS or AWS Kiro IDE at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A command injection vulnerability exists in the Kiro GitLab Merge Request Helper component of Kiro IDE prior to version 0.6.18. The flaw is triggered when the application fails to properly sanitize folder names within a workspace, allowing shell commands embedded in those names to be executed during workspace initialization or processing. An attacker must convince a user to open a malicious workspace (local attack vector requiring user interaction). Successful exploitation grants the attacker the ability to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the IDE user. The issue is resolved in version 0.6.18.
Affected products
- AWS Kiro IDE < 0.6.18
Timeline
- 2026-01-09: disclosed
- 2026-01-09: patched: Fixed in version 0.6.18