PYSEC-2021-437

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-3572
Aliases
GHSA-5xp3-jfq3-5q8x

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 — PyPA Advisory Database