CVE-2026-44191

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-22. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8(high)
EG Risk
35(Track)
EG Risk 35/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
38%
KEV
Not listed

Published

July 22, 2026

Last Modified

July 22, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jul 22, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2466761 – (CVE-2026-44191) CVE-2026-44191 ansible-lightspeed: Visual Studio Code Ansible Lightspeed extension: Remote Code Execution via command injection in configuration settings

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466761
redhat Patch Available

cve-details

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44191

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-44191(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 29× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-29 22:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-07-29 10:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-07-28 22:35 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-07-28 22:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-07-28 15:36 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-07-28 10:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-07-27 22:14 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-07-27 22:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-07-27 14:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-07-27 10:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-07-26 21:57 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-07-26 21:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-07-26 14:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-07-26 14:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-07-26 09:49 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-07-26 09:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-07-25 14:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-07-24 14:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-07-23 14:18 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-07-23 03:14 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-07-22 22:05 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-07-22 22:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-07-22 19:12 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-07-22 19:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-07-22 17:16 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-07-22 17:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-07-22 13:35 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-07-22 12:48 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-07-22 12:47 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-44191?
CVE-2026-44191 is a high vulnerability published on July 22, 2026. 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…
When was CVE-2026-44191 disclosed?
CVE-2026-44191 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on July 22, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-44191 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-44191 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 61.7% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-44191?
CVE-2026-44191 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-44191?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-44191, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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