CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-2000

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2025-03-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-03-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm qiskit (>= 0.18.0 < 1.4.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References