GHSA-6m2c-76ff-6vrfCriticalCVSS 9.8

Qiskit allows arbitrary code execution decoding QPY format versions < 13

Published
March 14, 2025
Last Modified
May 2, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-2000 →

📋 Description

Impact

A maliciously crafted QPY file can potentially execute arbitrary-code embedded in the payload without privilege escalation when deserializing QPY formats < 13. A python process calling Qiskit's qiskit.qpy.load() function could potentially execute any arbitrary Python code embedded in the correct place in the binary file as part of a specially constructed payload.

Patches

Fixed in Qiskit 1.4.2 and in Qiskit 2.0.0rc2

🎯 Affected products3

  • pip/qiskit-terra:>= 0.18.0, <= 0.46.3
  • pip/qiskit:<= 1.4.1
  • pip/qiskit:= 2.0.0rc1

🔗 References (4)