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Insufficient validation exists within PyCharm’s checks for fetching projects from VCS.
If a victim can be enticed into fetching a VCS project via PyCharm, a remote attacker could achieve remote code execution.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All PyCharm Community users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=dev-util/pycharm-community-2021.1.2"
All PyCharm Professional users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
">=dev-util/pycharm-professional-2021.1.2"