CVE-2026-45695

critical

Description

Kopia is a cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux with fast incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression, and data deduplication. Prior to 0.23.0, Kopia's HTTP server started with --without-password accepts unauthenticated requests to /api/v1/repo/exists and forwards attacker-supplied SFTP storage configuration to blob.NewStorage, where externalSSH: true and sshArguments containing -oProxyCommand=<cmd> can cause exec.CommandContext("ssh") to invoke the command through OpenSSH. This issue is fixed in version 0.23.0.

References

https://github.com/kopia/kopia/security/advisories/GHSA-2q4c-3mrw-63c3

https://github.com/kopia/kopia/releases/tag/v0.23.0

https://github.com/kopia/kopia/pull/5354

https://github.com/kopia/kopia/commit/c26c6a1b9734c5089217986ffa5cd19f8a6b8900

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-16

Updated: 2026-07-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00109