What is CVE-2024-41148?

CVE-2024-41148 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openrobotics Robot Operating System, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-41148?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

RCE in Openrobotics Robot Operating System

CVE-2024-41148

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.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.002 (8.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Openrobotics Robot_operating_system — versions indigo_igloo, kinetic_kame, melodic_morenia
Open Source Robotics Foundation Robot Operating System (Ros) — versions Noetic Ninjemys, Melodic Morenia, Kinetic Kame

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security@ubuntu.com (Product, product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-41148?: CVE-2024-41148 is a high-severity vulnerability in Openrobotics Robot Operating System, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2025-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-41148?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.