CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-4870

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

18th percentile - higher than 18% of all known CVEs

Summary

IBM Qiskit SDK versions 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.

Risk Assessment

The organization may experience service interruptions related to Qiskit SDK, impacting operations and performance.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update IBM Qiskit SDK to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS