CVE-2026-44189

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2VulnerabilityCVSS 7.8

A flaw was found in the Visual Studio Code Ansible Lightspeed extension's AnsiblePlaybookRunProvider. This command injection vulnerability allows an attacker to craft a malicious playbook filename containing special characters. When a victim runs the playbook, these characters are not properly sanitized, leading to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running VS Code. This could result in a full system compromise, including the exfiltration of sensitive data, modification of project files, and permanent data loss.

No public exploitation has been reported so far. No distribution fix is listed yet; apply vendor mitigations and monitor.

Recommended action: Track your distribution's security tracker and apply the fix as soon as it ships.

CVE-2026-44189 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Vulnerability

Severity metrics

CVSS 3.1 : 7.8 HIGH

Attack vectorLocal

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactHigh

Availability impactHigh

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

Affected & fixed versions by distribution

Versions are the native distribution strings (backport-aware): RHEL/Debian/SUSE backport fixes, so compare with the distro version comparator (dpkg / rpm / vercmp), not the upstream version.

No affected package in the tracked watchlist yet (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, SUSE, Red Hat...). Triage may still be pending.

Sources

Advisory NVD CVE.org

Published 2026-07-22 · updated 2026-07-26 · source: NVD