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Red HatCVE-2026-44189

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2: command injection

High7.8CVE-2026-44189 · Published Jul 22, 2026

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.

Red Hat advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-88

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