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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2024-41921

Unsafe use of eval() method in rostopic echo tool

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Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
canonical

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Open Source Robotics Foundation Robot Operating System (ROS)

Default version status: unaffected

  • Noetic Ninjemysaffected
  • Melodic Moreniaaffected
  • Kinetic Kameaffected
  • Indigo Iglooaffected

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