Introducing the Robot Vulnerability Database

I still have not seen a good reason why we need to strike out on our own. I would rather leverage the work of the NVD and MITRE so people can reuse existing tooling, process and procedures.

I would say the NVD is lacking in robotics specific CVEs because people have not submitted issues. We have opened 3 CVEs with MITRE this year for ROS packages:

  • CVE-2019-13445 - potential integer overflow
  • CVE-2019-13566 - potential string overflow
  • CVE-2019-13465 - potential iterator cause buffer overflow

ROS is just packages on top of an operating system, it would be like Apache standing up a new vuln database just for Apache projects instead of using MITRE.

Cheers,
-Joe

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