CVE-2025-1403 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting IBM Qiskit SDK versions 0.45.0 through 1.2.4. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted QPY file containing a malformed symengine serialization stream, leading to a segfault in the symengine library. The CVSS score of 8.6 indicates a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity and high impact on availability, requiring no user interaction or privileges. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0.45.0, <= 1.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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