RCE in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

CVE-2026-44190

A flaw was found in the Ansible Lightspeed Visual Studio Code extension. This Command Injection vulnerability (CWE-78) allows a remote attacker to execute unauthorized commands on a user's system. The issue occurs because the `ansible.python.activationScript` setting, intended for a virtual environment activation script, does not properly validate user input as a file path. If a user opens or executes a specially crafted project, an attacker could exploit this to gain complete control over the user's system with the privileges of the Visual Studio Code application.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.008 (52.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.