CVE-2023-24012

HIGH LAB

OpenDDS Secure DDS - PKCS#7 Permission Verification Bypass

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2023-24012. PoCs published by SafeLock-D2E.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This repository contains a functional PoC for CVE-2023-24012, demonstrating a permission bypass vulnerability in ROS 2 SROS2 security framework. The exploit modifies locally signed permission files to allow unauthorized topic subscriptions.

Description

An attacker can arbitrarily craft malicious DDS Participants (or ROS 2 Nodes) with valid certificates to compromise and get full control of the attacked secure DDS databus system by exploiting vulnerable attributes in the configuration of PKCS#7 certificate’s validation. This is caused by a non-compliant implementation of permission document verification used by some DDS vendors. Specifically, an improper use of the OpenSSL PKCS7_verify function used to validate S/MIME signatures.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC 1 stars
by SafeLock-D2E · poc
https://github.com/SafeLock-D2E/Quiksand-CVE-2023-24012

This repository contains a functional PoC for CVE-2023-24012, demonstrating a permission bypass vulnerability in ROS 2 SROS2 security framework. The exploit modifies locally signed permission files to allow unauthorized topic subscriptions.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Auth Bypass
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: ROS 2 Foxy with SROS2 security framework
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Docker environment · ROS 2 Foxy installation
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 27, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 8.2
EPSS 0.0027
EPSS Percentile 18.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Lab Environment

COMMUNITY
Community Lab
docker pull tiryoh/ros2:foxy-20230129T0227

Details

CWE
CWE-200
Status published
Products (1)
OpenDDS/DDS all versions
Published Jan 09, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026