CVE-2026-19795

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
IBMQiskit SDK2.1.0 <= 2.5.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502: CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Workarounds

Workarounds/Mitigation guidance:

None

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References