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Untrusted Search Path

CVE-2025-24789

Severity High
Score 7.8/10

Summary

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 net.snowflake:snowflake-jdbc versions 3.2.2 through 3.21.0 on Windows.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path

The application searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the application's direct control.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published