CVE-2026-116500

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 47/100
Published: 2026-11-08 Modified: 2026-11-12 First seen: 2026-11-08 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

IBM Qiskit SDK 2.4.0 through 2.6.1 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to unbound recursion during deserialization of untrusted QPY payloads.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
IBM Qiskit SDK 2.4.0
IBM Qiskit SDK 2.4.0

Bug Bounty Relevance

47 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.2 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.16%
Raw Score 0.001620
Percentile 5.5%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00162
2026-11-12
0.00162
2026-11-10
0.00162
2026-11-09
0.00162

Intelligence Sources

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