Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Lightspeed extension configuration file information disclosure

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file configuration file of the component Ansible Lightspeed extension. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-44187. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (the affected version unknown). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown part of the file configuration file of the component Ansible Lightspeed extension. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in the Ansible Lightspeed extension for Visual Studio Code. This vulnerability allows an attacker with local access to the workstation, or malware running with the user's privileges, to read the Google Gemini API key. The extension insecurely stores the API key in plain text within the user's configuration file and writes it to output log files. This information disclosure can lead to the attacker obtaining the API credential and potentially consuming the user's API quota.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-44187 since 05/05/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 07/22/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Automation Software

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• Red Hat

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• Ansible Automation Platform

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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