# CVE-2025-24794: The Snowflake Connector for Python uses insecure deserialization of the OCSP response cache

> CVE-2025-24794: The Snowflake Connector for Python uses insecure deserialization of the OCSP response cache. CVSS 6.7 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24794
Last updated: 2026-06-17T08:59:37Z

- Published: 2025-01-29 20:25 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 08:59 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 6.7 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.25%, 16th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-502

## Description

The Snowflake Connector for Python provides an interface for developing Python applications that can connect to Snowflake and perform all standard operations. Snowflake discovered and remediated a vulnerability in the Snowflake Connector for Python. The OCSP response cache uses pickle as the serialization format, potentially leading to local privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects versions 2.7.12 through 3.13.0. Snowflake fixed the issue in version 3.13.1.

## Affected vendors and products

- snowflakedb: snowflake-connector-python

## Tracked companies

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

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24794)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24794)
- [https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-python/commit/3769b43822357c3874c40f5e74068458c2dc79af](https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-python/commit/3769b43822357c3874c40f5e74068458c2dc79af)
- [https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-python/security/advisories/GHSA-m4f6-vcj4-w5mx](https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-python/security/advisories/GHSA-m4f6-vcj4-w5mx)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24794 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24794.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-24794 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:17:06.879Z