CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2024-41148
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.19%
Original NVD 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.
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