CVE-2024-41921 — Unsafe use of eval() method in rostopic echo tool

Description (CNA)

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 'echo' verb, which allows a user to introspect a ROS 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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Open Source Robotics Foundation / Robot Operating System (ROS)	affected Noetic Ninjemys; affected Melodic Morenia; affected Kinetic Kame; affected Indigo Igloo

CWE

CWE-95, CWE-94

References

https://www.ros.org/blog/noetic-eol/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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