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3 vulnerabilities found for Qiskit SDK by IBM
CVE-2026-4870 (GCVE-0-2026-4870)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-12 20:52 – Updated: 2026-06-15 13:37
VLAI?
Title
Qiskit SDK is vulnerable to specific functions may recurse too deeply and overflow the available stack space, when encountering certain classical expressions.
Summary
IBM Qiskit SDK 0.43.0 through 2.5.0 could allow an attacker to trigger a segmentation fault leading to a denial of service due to uncontrolled recursion in the parser.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | Qiskit SDK |
Affected:
0.43.0 , ≤ 2.5.0
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit_sdk:0.43.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit_sdk:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Credits
This vulnerability was reported to IBM by Ali Sherif.
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CVE-2025-2000 (GCVE-0-2025-2000)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-14 13:04 – Updated: 2026-02-26 19:09
VLAI?
Title
Qiskit SDK code execution
Summary
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Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
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| URL | Tags | ||||
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Affected:
0.18.0 , ≤ 1.4.1
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit:0.18.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Credits
Matthew Treinish and Jake Lishman
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CVE-2025-1403 (GCVE-0-2025-1403)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-21 16:55 – Updated: 2025-08-26 19:48
VLAI?
Title
Qiskit SDK denial of service
Summary
Qiskit SDK 0.45.0 through 1.2.4 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service using a maliciously crafted QPY file containing a malformed symengine serialization stream which can cause a segfault within the symengine library.
Severity ?
8.6 (High)
CWE
- CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
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