CVE-2025-24789: snowflake snowflake_jdbc Untrusted Search Path
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-24789 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in snowflake snowflake_jdbc. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 3Timeline
- 29-01-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 12-02-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.26%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
16%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.26% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Chainguard60 products
- flyway< 11.2.0-r1
- trino< 472-r0
- trino-config< 472-r0
- trino-oci-entrypoint< 472-r0
- trino-plugin-ai-functions< 472-r0
Wolfi60 products
- flyway< 11.2.0-r1
- trino< 472-r0
- trino-config< 472-r0
- trino-oci-entrypoint< 472-r0
- trino-plugin-ai-functions< 472-r0
Net.snowflake1 product
- snowflake-jdbc≥ 3.2.3, < 3.22.0
Snowflake1 product
- snowflake_jdbc≥ 3.2.3, < 3.22.0
Snowflakedb1 product
- snowflake-jdbc≥ 3.2.3, < 3.22.0
5 vendors · 123 products
References
5 links- github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/security/advisories/GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhfX Refsource CONFIRMAdvisoryWEBVendor Advisory
- github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/commit/4f01bb8f9b708c71e7a2111c87371dbfc1d53dd6X Refsource MISCFIXWEBPatch