RCE in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

CVE-2026-44191

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 class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.008 (54.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.