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Description

A code injection vulnerability has been discovered in the Robot Operating System (ROS) 'rostopic' command-line tool, affecting ROS distributions Noetic Ninjemys and earlier. The vulnerability lies in the 'echo' verb, which allows a user to introspect a ROS topic and accepts a user-provided Python expression via the --filter option. This input is passed directly to the eval() function without sanitization, allowing a local user to craft and execute arbitrary code.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-08-08 | Published 2025-07-17 | Updated 2025-07-18 | Assigner canonical




HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-95 Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Noetic Ninjemys
affected

Melodic Morenia
affected

Kinetic Kame
affected

Indigo Igloo
affected

Credits

Florencia Cabral Berenfus, Ubuntu Robotics Team finder

References

www.ros.org/blog/noetic-eol/ product

cve.org (CVE-2024-41921)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-41921)

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