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CVE-2021-37146

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-835

Description

An infinite loop in Open Robotics ros_comm XMLRPC server in ROS Melodic through 1.4.11 and ROS Noetic through1.15.11 allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service in ros_comm via a crafted XMLRPC call.

Affected products

• openrobotics ros_comm ROS communications packages: through 1.4.11; from 1.15.0 through 1.15.11

References

• https://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-melodic-2021-09-27/22446
• https://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-noetic-2021-09-27/22447
• https://github.com/ros/ros_comm
• https://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-melodic-2021-09-27/22446
• https://discourse.ros.org/t/new-packages-for-noetic-2021-09-27/22447
• https://github.com/ros/ros_comm

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