CVE-2024-41148

Published Jul 17, 2025

Last updated 7 months ago

Overview

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.
Source
security@ubuntu.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
robot_operating_system

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

security@ubuntu.com
CWE-94
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-94

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.