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CVE-2024-41921

Published: Jul 17, 2025

Modified: Jul 18, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.8

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Open Source Robotics Foundation

Robot Operating System (ROS)

affected
Noetic Ninjemys
affected
Melodic Morenia
affected
Kinetic Kame
affected
Indigo Igloo

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-95
CWE-94

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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