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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | No solution exists | Jul 29, 2025 | Jul 29, 2025 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade ros-noetic-ros-commUpgrade ros-kinetic-ros-commUpgrade ros-melodic-ros-comm | Jul 25, 2025 | Jul 17, 2025 |
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