CVE-2025-1403
Qiskit SDK denial of service
HIGH
8.6
CVSS Score
Published: February 21, 2025 at 04:55 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:39 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQiskit
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Severity
HIGH8.6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit
Description
Qiskit SDK 0.45.0 through 1.2.4 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service using a maliciously crafted QPY file containing a malformed symengine serialization stream which can cause a segfault within the symengine library.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (1)
SSVC — Action Prioritization
SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact
SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.
CVSS
8.6HIGHibm
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- CHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-502
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