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IBMCVE-2026-19795

IBM Qiskit SDK: denial of service

Medium6.2CVE-2026-19795 · Published Sep 3, 2026 · updated Sep 8, 2026

Qiskit could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to a stack overflow during deserialization of QPY payloads. A malicious QPY payload can trigger a segmentation fault, causing the application to crash when deserializing untrusted input.

IBM advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Qiskit SDK
Product
>= 2.1.0, <= 2.5.1No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-502

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