CVE-2021-3572 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-pip  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-PYTHONPIP-1304485
  • published31 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Nov 2021

Introduced: 10 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-3572  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-pip package and not the python-pip package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.