PyPi: Qiskit-Terra

CVE-2025-2000

Safety vulnerability ID: 76305

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Created at Mar 14, 2025 Updated at Mar 28, 2025

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Advisory

A maliciously crafted QPY file containing can potentially execute arbitrary-code embedded in the payload without privilege escalation when deserializing QPY formats < 13. A python process calling Qiskit's qiskit.qpy.load() function could potentially execute any arbitrary Python code embedded in the correct place in the binary file as part of a specially constructed payload.

Affected package

qiskit-terra

Latest version: 0.46.3

Software for developing quantum computing programs

Affected versions

Fixed versions

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

CRITICAL 9.8

CVSS v3 Details

CRITICAL 9.8

Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C): HIGH
Integrity Impact (I): HIGH
Availability Availability (A): HIGH