CVE-2024-41148

HIGH

Openrobotics Robot Operating System - Code Injection

Title source: rule

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.

References (1)

[Product] https://www.ros.org/blog/noetic-eol/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 8.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-95 CWE-94

Status published

Products (4)

openrobotics/robot_operating_system indigo_igloo

openrobotics/robot_operating_system kinetic_kame

openrobotics/robot_operating_system melodic_morenia

openrobotics/robot_operating_system noetic_ninjemys

Published Jul 17, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026