CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-44191

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.82%

53th percentile - higher than 53% of all known CVEs

Summary

Command injection vulnerability in the Visual Studio Code Ansible Lightspeed extension. Improper handling of containerOptions and volumeMounts settings allows an attacker to inject shell separators, potentially leading to remote code execution (RCE) on the victim's machine with VS Code user privileges.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can fully compromise the victim's system, gaining access to data and the ability to further escalate attacks within the network.

Recommendation

Update the Ansible Lightspeed extension to the latest patched version. Restrict trust for untrusted configurations.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in the Visual Studio Code Ansible Lightspeed extension. This command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) arises from improper handling of the ansible.executionEnvironment.containerOptions and ansible.executionEnvironment.volumeMounts settings, allowing an attacker to inject shell separators. This can be triggered automatically during Language Server initialization or manually when executing a playbook. Successful exploitation leads to remote code execution (RCE) on the victim's machine with the privileges of the Visual Studio Code user, potentially resulting in a complete system compromise.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS