CVE-2024-42002
HIGHCVSS 8.4Description
A code injection vulnerability has been discovered in the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) 'ros2topic' command-line tool, affecting all ROS 2 distributions from Crystal Clemmys up to and including Lyrical Luth and Rolling Ridley. 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.
Timeline
Published:September 28th, 2026 10:17 PM
Last modified:September 30th, 2026 2:17 PM
CVSS Scoring
CVSS v3: 8.4 (HIGH)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute