CVE-2024-39780: Openrobotics Robot Operating System

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A YAML deserialization vulnerability was found in the Robot Operating System (ROS) 'dynparam', a command-line tool for getting, setting, and deleting parameters of a dynamically configurable node, affecting ROS distributions Noetic and earlier. The issue is caused by the use of the yaml.load() function in the 'set' and 'get' verbs, and allows for the creation of arbitrary Python objects. Through this flaw, a local or remote user can craft and execute arbitrary Python code.

Affected products

• Openrobotics Robot Operating System: version indigo_igloo only; version kinetic_kame only; version melodic_morenia only; version noetic_ninjemys only

Published 2025-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.