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CVE-2025-1403Qiskit SDK denial of service
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 0.72%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.72% · top 46% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
Affected products
- affected 0.45.0 – ≤ 1.2.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIqiskitGHSA-fpmr-m242-xm7x (opens in a new tab)
- PyPIqiskit-terraGHSA-fpmr-m242-xm7x (opens in a new tab)
References
References1
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7183868 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-4473 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fpmr-m242-xm7x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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