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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
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-15 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7185949 vendor-advisorypatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
IBM Qiskit SDK 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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