CVE-2026-19795
Published:September 03, 2026
Updated:September 22, 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.
Affected Packages
qiskit (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=2.1.0 <2.5.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.5.2qiskit (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=2.1.0 <2.5.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.5.2Related Resources (1)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
EPSS
Base Score:
0.11