🛡️ GHSA-3pwp-2fqj-6g2p — qiskit (CVE-2025-2000)

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-502 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Duplicate Advisory: Qiskit allows arbitrary code execution decoding QPY format versions < 13

# Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-6m2c-76ff-6vrf. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

# Original 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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-3pwp-2fqj-6g2p is classified as CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data. Serialised data from an untrusted source is reconstructed into objects, which can trigger code during the process.

Affected software

GHSA-3pwp-2fqj-6g2p is recorded against 1 package.

  • qiskit

Timeline and source

Published on 14 March 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
www.ibm.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-502
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-03-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-03-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
qiskit — —

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