CVE-2024-42002 Robot Operating System 2 - Command Injection

Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) <= Rolling Ridley contains a command injection caused by unsanitized user input passed to eval() in the 'hz' verb of ros2topic, letting local users execute arbitrary code, exploit requires local access.

CVSS base score 8.4 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Not required
EPSS
0.16% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Command Injection
Impact
Remote Code Execution
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
28 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-94

Vendor fix

Update to the latest ROS 2 distribution beyond Rolling Ridley.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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