Quick answers
- Is This vulnerability exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of This vulnerability being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is This vulnerability?
- Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 14 March 2025.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- qiskit (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,last_affected=1.4.1.
- Is there a fix for This vulnerability?
- A patch was published on 2025-03-14: Fix available in Qiskit 1.4.2 and 2.0.0 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is This vulnerability attacked?
- It is attacked over the network.
- Am I affected?
- Check whether you run qiskit (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
This is a deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) in Qiskit's qiskit.qpy.load() function affecting QPY format versions prior to 13. When a Python process deserializes a specially crafted QPY binary file, arbitrary Python code embedded in the payload is executed without requiring privilege escalation or user interaction. The attack vector is network-accessible if QPY files are loaded from untrusted remote sources. Affected versions range from 0.18.0 through 1.4.1; users should upgrade to version 1.4.2 or 2.0.0 or later.
Affected products
- IBM Qiskit 0.18.0 through 1.4.1
Timeline
- 2025-03-14: disclosed
- 2025-03-14: advisory: GHSA-3pwp-2fqj-6g2p marked as duplicate of GHSA-6m2c-76ff-6vrf and withdrawn
- 2025-03-14: patched: Fix available in Qiskit 1.4.2 and 2.0.0