Medium
Security advisory
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.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3572
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- 1 Nov 2026, 07:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-3572
Complete source record
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