CVE-2024-41921

Name	CVE-2024-41921
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1110773

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
ros-ros-comm (PTS)	bullseye	1.15.9+ds1-7+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.15.15+ds-2	vulnerable
	forky, trixie	1.17.0+ds-2	vulnerable
	sid	1.17.4+ds-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
ros-ros-comm	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant		1110773

Bogus report, all input to eval comes from trusted input