CVE-2021-42574

A flaw was found in the way Unicode standards are implemented in the context of development environments, which have specialized requirements for rendering text. An attacker could exploit this to deceive a human reviewer by creating a malicious patch containing well placed BiDi characters. The special handling and rendering of those characters can be then used in an attempt to hide unexpected and potentially dangerous behaviour from the reviewer.

This is a flaw with the way Unicode standards are implemented in the context of development environments, which have specialized requirements for rendering text. This is not a flaw in Red Hat products.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

This issue can be mitigated by ensuring code commits get a proper review. All new commits can also be scanned for the presence of BiDi characters before accepting the commit.