CVE-2020-10289

HIGH

Openrobotics Robot Operating System - Insecure Deserialization

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Use of unsafe yaml load. Allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. The flaw itself is caused by an unsafe parsing of YAML values which happens whenever an action message is processed to be sent, and allows for the creation of Python objects. Through this flaw in the ROS core package of actionlib, an attacker with local or remote access can make the ROS Master, execute arbitrary code in Python form. Consider yaml.safe_load() instead. Located first in actionlib/tools/library.py:132. See links for more info on the bug.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/ros/actionlib/pull/171

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0195
EPSS Percentile 77.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-502
Status published
Products (1)
openrobotics/robot_operating_system
Published Aug 20, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026