CVE-2025-24789CWE-426

Snowflake JDBC allows an untrusted search path on Windows

High · published January 29, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Snowflake JDBC provides a JDBC type 4 driver that supports core functionality, allowing Java program to connect to Snowflake. Snowflake discovered and remediated a vulnerability in the Snowflake JDBC Driver. When the EXTERNALBROWSER authentication method is used on Windows, an attacker with write access to a directory in the %PATH% can escalate their privileges to the user that runs the vulnerable JDBC Driver version. This vulnerability affects versions 3.2.3 through 3.21.0 on Windows. Snowflake fixed the issue in version 3.22.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00257 · 16.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-426 · Untrusted Search Path
Published
2025-01-29T17:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 JAN 17:46Z
    Snowflake JDBC allows an untrusted search path on Windows
    cvelistv5