CVE-2024-41148
Unsafe use of eval() method in rostopic hz tool
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.8EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
17 Jul 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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https://www.ros.org/blog/noetic-eol/