Security Advisory

CVE-2025-2000

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-03-14 13:04:46
Last updated 2026-02-26 19:09:30
Assigner ibm
CVSS score 9.8
State PUBLISHED

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.