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GHSA-vmvm-99w5-56j6

qiskit on PyPI · published in qiskit/qiskit

Read the advisory on GitHub ↗

Fixed in 2.6.2. Dependabot, npm audit and OSV-Scanner won’t flag this yet. Find it in your project

Facts

Severity
High · CVSS score 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected versions
>= 1.4.2, <= 2.6.1As entered by the maintainer. Not reviewed.
Fixed in
2.6.2
CVE
CVE-2026-116499 · published
GitHub Advisory Database
Not reviewed
OSV.dev
Not present
Other CVEs pointing here
None found in the CVE List

If you use qiskit >= 1.4.2, <= 2.6.1

Upgrade to 2.6.2 or later. Dependabot, npm audit and OSV-Scanner won’t flag this yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-11-05 15:32 UTC

    Published by the maintainers

    Cites CVE-2026-116499

  2. 2026-11-09 16:50 UTC

    Change recorded

    CVE-2026-116499 RESERVED -> PUBLISHED

  3. 2026-11-06 14:26 UTC

    First seen by Limbowatch

    not reviewed · not in OSV

  4. Waiting

    Reviewed by GitHub

  5. Waiting

    In OSV; scanners can see it

Machine-readable record: feed/GHSA-vmvm-99w5-56j6.json