Ansible-lightspeed: ansible lightspeed: session hijacking and unauthorized data access due to insufficient session expiration (Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6)

CVE-2026-44188
MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 21 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-613 — DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6unaffected 1782755166 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7unaffected 1781025813 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD