CVE-2025-2000 (GCVE-0-2025-2000)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-14 13:04
Modified
2025-09-01 01:05
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Summary
A maliciously crafted QPY file can potential execute arbitrary-code embedded in the payload without privilege escalation when deserialising QPY formats < 13. A python process calling Qiskit 0.18.0 through 1.4.1's `qiskit.qpy.load()` function could potentially execute any arbitrary Python code embedded in the correct place in the binary file as part of specially constructed payload.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Qiskit SDK Version: 0.18.0   ≤ 1.4.1
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit:0.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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