CVE record · CVE-2024-42002

Unsafe use of eval() method in ros2 topic hz tool

CVSS 8.6 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: canonical) at 28 Sept 2026, 21:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Open Source Robotics Foundation	Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) Package name: ros2topic	affected Rolling Ridley custom affected Lyrical Luth custom affected Kilted Kaiju custom affected Jazzy Jalisco custom affected Iron Irwini custom affected Humble Hawksbill custom affected Galactic Geochelone custom affected Foxy Fitzroy custom affected Eloquent Elusor custom affected Dashing Diademata custom affected Crystal Clemmys custom Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2024-42002
CNA: canonical
Weakness (CWE): CWE-94 · CWE-95
Tags: Open Source Robotics Foundation Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2)
Code injection
Published: 28 Sept 2026
Updated: 30 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.6	High	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (canonical)Used for this record
8.4	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (canonical)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 5th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

28 Sept 2026, 22:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/ros2/ros2cli/pull/1001 patch
github.com/ros2/ros2cli/pull/133#discussion_r223081766 issue-tracking

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