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CVE-2026-44189

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2026-07-22 Modified: 2026-07-22

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-88

References