An issue was discovered in ROS2 Humble Hawksbill in ROS_VERSION 2 and ROS_PYTHON_VERSION 3, allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via man-in-the-middle attacks due to cleartext transmission of data across the ROS2 nodes' communication channels.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29449
• https://github.com/yashpatelphd/CVE-2024-29449
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/23/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/23/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/23/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/23/5