# CVE-2025-24789: Snowflake JDBC allows an untrusted search path on Windows

> CVE-2025-24789: Snowflake JDBC allows an untrusted search path on Windows. CVSS 7.8 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24789
Last updated: 2026-06-17T08:59:36Z

- Published: 2025-01-29 17:46 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 08:59 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 7.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.26%, 17th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-426

## 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.

## Affected vendors and products

- snowflakedb: snowflake-jdbc

## Tracked companies

- [Snowflake](https://rewindex.com/company/snowflake.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24789)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24789)
- [https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/commit/4f01bb8f9b708c71e7a2111c87371dbfc1d53dd6](https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/commit/4f01bb8f9b708c71e7a2111c87371dbfc1d53dd6)
- [https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/security/advisories/GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhf](https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/security/advisories/GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhf)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24789 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24789.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-24789 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T04:05:39.710Z