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2 vulnerabilities found for qiskit_software_development_kit by ibm
CVE-2026-4870 (GCVE-0-2026-4870)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-06-12 20:52 – Updated: 2026-06-15 13:37
VLAI
Title
Qiskit SDK is vulnerable to specific functions may recurse too deeply and overflow the available stack space, when encountering certain classical expressions.
Summary
IBM Qiskit SDK 0.43.0 through 2.5.0 could allow an attacker to trigger a segmentation fault leading to a denial of service due to uncontrolled recursion in the parser.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7276123 | vendor-advisorypatch |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | Qiskit SDK |
Affected:
0.43.0 , ≤ 2.5.0
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit_sdk:0.43.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:ibm:qiskit_sdk:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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CVE-2026-4870 (GCVE-0-2026-4870)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-12 20:52 – Updated: 2026-06-15 13:37
VLAI
Title
Qiskit SDK is vulnerable to specific functions may recurse too deeply and overflow the available stack space, when encountering certain classical expressions.
Summary
IBM Qiskit SDK 0.43.0 through 2.5.0 could allow an attacker to trigger a segmentation fault leading to a denial of service due to uncontrolled recursion in the parser.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
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CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
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