SCA: security update for qiskit (GHSA-fpmr-m242-xm7x)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420951

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Qiskit SDK 0.45.0 through 1.2.4 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service using a
maliciously crafted QPY file containing a malformed symengine serialization stream which can cause a
segfault within the symengine library. (CVE-2025-1403)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fpmr-m242-xm7x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 420951

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/22/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.16

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1403

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1403

cwe: CWE-502