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High · 8.0 CVE-2026-27509 EUVD-2026-8881GHSA-hcv4-2wj7-9p5g

Unitree Go2 Missing DDS Authentication Enables Adjacent RCE

Published Feb 26, 2026 · Updated May 26, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Unitree Go2 firmware versions V1.1.7 through V1.1.9, and V1.1.11 (EDU) do not implement DDS authentication or authorization for the Eclipse CycloneDDS topic rt/api/programming_actuator/request handled by actuator_manager.py. A network-adjacent, unauthenticated attacker can join DDS domain 0 and publish a crafted message (api_id=1002) containing arbitrary Python, which the robot writes to disk under /unitree/etc/programming/ and binds to a physical controller keybinding. When the keybinding is pressed, the code executes as root and the binding persists across reboots.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
UnitreeRobotics Unitree Go2 1.1.7 – ≤ 1.1.9, 1.1.11 —

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