High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 20, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-10289
CVE-2020-10289
Description
Use of unsafe yaml load. Allows instantiation of arbitrary objects. The flaw itself is caused by an unsafe parsing of YAML values which happens whenever an action message is processed to be sent, and allows for the creation of Python objects. Through this flaw in the ROS core package of actionlib, an attacker with local or remote access can make the ROS Master, execute arbitrary code in Python form. Consider yaml.safe_load() instead. Located first in actionlib/tools/library.py:132. See links for more info on the bug.
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Affected products
2- Open Robotics/rosv5Range: ROS Melodic Morenia and prior distros
Patches
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References
1- github.com/ros/actionlib/pull/171nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
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