GHSA-5xp3-jfq3-5q8x

Improper Input Validation in pip

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-3572
Aliases
PYSEC-2021-437
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS_V4
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

A flaw was found in python-pip in the way it handled Unicode separators in git references. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to install a different revision on a repository. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity. This is fixed in python-pip version 21.1.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · pipintroduced 0, fixed 21.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database