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incidents/AIR-2026-1213

CVE-2026-44192: Path Traversal Flaw in Ansible Lightspeed MCP Server

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityInfrastructure vulnerabilityPrompt injection

A path traversal vulnerability in the Ansible Lightspeed MCP server can be exploited via indirect prompt injection to write unauthorized files. No active exploitation has been confirmed.

disclosed CVENo confirmed exploitation, so this record is tracked as a disclosed vulnerability and not counted as an incident. It moves into the counts if CISA or the vendor confirms exploitation. Why

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Infrastructure vulnerabilityprimary
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
  • Prompt injection
    Untrusted content (web pages, documents, emails, tool output) steers a model into ignoring its instructions.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
CVE or vendor advisory, patched or patchable, no confirmed exploitation.
targets
Microsoft, Framework / tooling
products
Ansible Lightspeed MCP server
incident date
22 Jul 2026
first reported
22 Jul 2026
origin
NVD
Vulnerability record from NVD / the GitHub Advisory Database. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
CVE-2026-44192 · path_traversal
record
created 2026-10-18 10:04Z · updated 2026-10-18 10:04Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-07-22
    CVE-2026-44192: A flaw was found in the Ansible Lightspeed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
    NVD · nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44192

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