Qiskit SDK is vulnerable when deserializing QPY Files and may overflow the available stack space.
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.2epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 98% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Qiskit could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to a stack overflow during deserialization of QPY payloads. A malicious QPY payload can trigger a segmentation fault, causing the application to crash when deserializing untrusted input.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
IBM · Qiskit SDK