On the Figures of Merit for Quantum Software Security: Toward a Benchmarking Rubric

Quantum software is increasingly provided through multi-tenant and cloud-based Quantum-as-a-Service QaaS stacks. A growing concern about the diverse attack vectors across the pipeline has been demonstrated in recent research. Yet the community has converged on three mature pillars: Scale Qubit...

Quantum Software Security Challenges within Shared Quantum Computing Environments

The number of qubits in quantum computers keeps growing, but most quantum programs remain relatively small because of the noisy nature of the underlying quantum hardware. This might lead quantum cloud providers to explore increased hardware utilization, and thus profitability through means such a...

GHSA-6M2C-76FF-6VRF Qiskit allows arbitrary code execution decoding QPY format versions < 13

Impact A maliciously crafted QPY file can potentially execute arbitrary-code embedded in the payload without privilege escalation when deserializing QPY formats 13. A python process calling Qiskit's qiskit.qpy.load function could potentially execute any arbitrary Python code embedded in the corre...