Riskcovery

CVE-2024-41148

Unsafe use of eval() method in rostopic hz tool

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jul 17, 2025
Updated
Jul 18, 2025
Reserved
Aug 1, 2024

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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 'hz' verb, which reports the publishing rate of a 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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcanonical

Weaknesses

  • CWE-95 Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Robot Operating System (ROS)Open Source Robotics Foundation
  • Noetic NinjemysAffected
  • Melodic MoreniaAffected
  • Kinetic KameAffected
  • Indigo IglooAffected

References

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