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title: Specialist Services for ROS ESM | Ubuntu and Canonical Legal
description: Robot Operating System Expanded Security Maintenance (ROS ESM) is a service
  by Canonical that provides security maintenance for ROS Long Term Support (LTS)
  releases and the underlying Ubuntu distributions, starting with ROS Kinetic.
url: https://canonical.com/legal/ubuntu-pro-description/ros-esm-service-description?format=md
---

# Specialist Services for ROS ESM

As a Robot Operating System (ROS) Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) customer, you are entitled to the benefits and services, subject to the exclusions and conditions, as defined in the [Ubuntu Pro Service Description](https://canonical.com/legal/ubuntu-advantage-service-description).

ROS scope is included in Ubuntu Pro. As an Essential, Standard or Advanced customer, you are also entitled to the benefits and services for ROS as described below.

## ROS ESM Service and ROS Support Scope

1. ROS ESM Service

   1. ROS ESM Service provides:

      1. Available High and Critical CVE fixes for a number of core ROS packages for ROS 1 Kinetic and Melodic, and ROS 2 Foxy. This includes packages in the [REP-142](https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0142.html) '[ros\_base](https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0142.html#ros-base)' and a majority of the '[desktop](https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0142.html#desktop-variants)' metapackages for each ROS distribution.
   2. ROS ESM Service expressly excludes:

      1. Security fixes for CVEs that are not High or Critical.
      2. Managed Services, as per defined in the Ubuntu Pro Service Description, for ROS or robotic applications.

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