CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-44189

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A command injection vulnerability exists in the Visual Studio Code Ansible Lightspeed extension's AnsiblePlaybookRunProvider. An attacker can craft a malicious playbook filename with special characters that are not properly sanitized, leading to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running VS Code.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can fully compromise the victim's system, including exfiltration of sensitive data, modification of project files, and permanent data loss.

Recommendation

Update the Ansible Lightspeed extension to the latest version. Avoid running playbooks from untrusted sources.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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