CVE-2024-39289

Publication date 17 July 2025

Last updated 23 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A code execution vulnerability has been discovered in the Robot Operating System (ROS) 'rosparam' tool, affecting ROS distributions Noetic Ninjemys and earlier. The vulnerability stems from the use of the eval() function to process unsanitized, user-supplied parameter values via special converters for angle representations in radians. This flaw allowed attackers to craft and execute arbitrary Python code.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ros-kinetic-ros-comm	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.12.17+8
ros-melodic-ros-comm	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.14.13+4
ros-noetic-ros-comm	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.17.4+2
ros-ros-comm	26.04 LTS resolute	Not in release
	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

Notes

flor-cabral

The affected package is included in ROS ESM.

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H