Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability in ROS2 Foxy Fitzroy

CVE-2023-51197 · CRITICAL Severity

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

An issue discovered in shell command execution in ROS2 (Robot Operating System 2) Foxy Fitzroy, with ROS_VERSION=2 and ROS_PYTHON_VERSION=3 allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands and cause other impacts. NOTE: this is disputed by multiple third parties who believe there was not reasonable evidence to determine the existence of a vulnerability.

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