CVE-2024-29032: IBM Qiskit IBM Runtime

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Qiskit IBM Runtime is an environment that streamlines quantum computations and provides optimal implementations of the Qiskit quantum computing SDK. Starting in version 0.1.0 and prior to version 0.21.2, deserializing json data using `qiskit_ibm_runtime.RuntimeDecoder` can lead to arbitrary code execution given a correctly formatted input string. Version 0.21.2 contains a fix for this issue.

Affected products

• IBM Qiskit IBM Runtime: from 0.1.0, before 0.21.2 (fixed in 0.21.2)

Published 2024-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.