MEDIUM 5.7 Microsoft

CVE-2021-3572

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.

Microsoft Security Update 2021-Nov: 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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Published: 2021-11-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-08-20
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.7 was published on 2021-11-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 python-pip 19.2-2 on CBL Mariner 1.0, cbl2 python-virtualenv 20.26.6-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0, cbl2 python-virtualenv 20.26.6-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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