CVE-2026-44188

Publication date 15 June 2026

Last updated 26 June 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible Lightspeed. This vulnerability, related to insufficient session expiration, allows a remote attacker to maintain persistent access to the Ansible Lightspeed instance. If an attacker exfiltrates a valid OAuth (Open Authorization) access token before a user logs out, they can continue to authenticate and access sensitive data. This is because the application fails to invalidate the token on the backend, leaving it valid until its natural expiration. This can lead to unauthorized read access to Ansible resources such as inventories, playbooks, and configuration data.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ansible 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation
ansible-core 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
lightspeed 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Needs evaluation
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation

Notes


sbeattie

core ansible binaries were split into ansible-base, which got renamed to ansible-core

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N


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