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CVE-2020-16124

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-16124 is an Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability within the XML RPC library of OpenRobotics ros_comm communications packages, impacting Noetic and prior versions. This critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) allows unauthenticated network traffic to cause unexpected behavior, with potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the high FAUCET Risk Score of 80/100 indicates significant theoretical risk. The issue has been addressed in a patch available on GitHub.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.15.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ros:ros-comm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.3HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0091 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / ros/ros_comm/pull/2065
PatchThird Party Advisory