Open Source Robotics Robot Operating System Crystal Clemmys up to Lyrical Luth Hz Verb eval filter code injection

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A vulnerability described as very critical has been identified in Open Source Robotics Robot Operating System. This issue affects the function eval of the component Hz Verb. Such manipulation of the argument filter leads to code injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-42002. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Open Source Robotics Robot Operating System and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is the function eval of the component Hz Verb. The manipulation of the argument filter with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A code injection vulnerability has been discovered in the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) 'ros2topic' command-line tool, affecting all ROS 2 distributions from Crystal Clemmys up to and including Lyrical Luth and Rolling Ridley. 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.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-42002 since 08/01/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/28/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1059 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Open Source Robotics

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• Robot Operating System

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• Crystal Clemmys
• Dashing Diademata
• Eloquent Elusor
• Foxy Fitzroy
• Galactic Geochelone
• Humble Hawksbill
• Iron Irwini
• Jazzy Jalisco
• Kilted Kaiju
• Lyrical Luth
• Rolling Ridley

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