CVE-2025-24789: Snowflake JDBC allows an untrusted search path on Windows
Description
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.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · CWE-426
Tracked companies
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Status incidents that name it
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Affected vendors and products
snowflakedb: snowflake-jdbc
References
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- github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/security/advisories/GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhf (opens in new tab)
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