CVE-2024-41921: 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 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 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.