---
id: CVE-2026-44188
title: >-
  Ansible-lightspeed: ansible lightspeed: session hijacking and unauthorized
  data access due to insufficient session expiration
summary: >-
  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 (…
severity: medium
cvss: 5.3
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-613
vendor: Red Hat
product: ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9
affected:
  - ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9 (all versions)
  - ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-rhel9 (all versions)
  - ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8 (all versions)
  - ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8 (all versions)
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-06-15T13:42:24.147548Z'
published: '2026-06-15'
updated: '2026-11-05'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-05T20:44:22.564Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44188'
references:
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25928'
    label: 'RHSA-2026:25928'
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34374'
    label: 'RHSA-2026:34374'
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44188'
  - url: 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466764'
    label: RHBZ#2466764
tags:
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00287
epssPercentile: 0.21366
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T22:38:31.877Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9 (all versions)`
- `ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-rhel9 (all versions)`
- `ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8 (all versions)`
- `ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8 (all versions)`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

### Workarounds

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.