Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting qiskit-terra package, versions [0.45.0,]
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- published23 Feb 2025
- disclosed21 Feb 2025
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Introduced: 21 Feb 2025
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There is no fixed version for qiskit-terra.
Overview
qiskit-terra is a Software for developing quantum computing programs
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data via the deserialization of QPY files containing malformed symengine serialization streams. An attacker can terminate the process by sending a crafted QPY file. This is only exploitable if symengine <= 0.13.0 is installed and the QPY format version is between 10 and 12.
Details
Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.
Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.