CVE-2024-39835: Openrobotics Robot Operating System

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A code injection vulnerability has been identified in the Robot Operating System (ROS) 'roslaunch' command-line tool, affecting ROS distributions Noetic Ninjemys and earlier. The vulnerability arises from the use of the eval() method to process user-supplied, unsanitized parameter values within the substitution args mechanism, which roslaunch evaluates before launching a node. This flaw allows attackers to 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 2025-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.