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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-1403

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.6

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: IBM

Product: Qiskit SDK

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.12% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 27.37% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-22 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1403
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7183868

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