# CVE-2025-24795: The Snowflake Connector for Python uses insecure cache files permissions

> CVE-2025-24795: The Snowflake Connector for Python uses insecure cache files permissions. CVSS 4.4 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24795
Last updated: 2026-06-17T08:59:37Z

- Published: 2025-01-29 20:30 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 08:59 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 4.4 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.14%, 3th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-276

## 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. On Linux systems, when temporary credential caching is enabled, the Snowflake Connector for Python will cache temporary credentials locally in a world-readable file. This vulnerability affects versions 2.3.7 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-2025-24795)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24795)
- [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-r2x6-cjg7-8r43](https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-python/security/advisories/GHSA-r2x6-cjg7-8r43)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24795 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-24795.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-24795 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:16:36.353Z