# CVE-2023-34231: Snowflake Golang Driver vulnerable to Command Injection

- Also known as: GHSA-FWV2-65WH-2W8C
- Severity: CVSS 7.3 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.6.19
- Published: 2023-06-08 · Updated: 2025-01-06

## Affected

- snowflakedb gosnowflake: fixed in 1.6.19
- github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake (Go): fixed in 1.6.19

## Description

gosnowflake is th Snowflake Golang driver. Prior to version 1.6.19, a command injection vulnerability exists in the Snowflake Golang driver via single sign-on (SSO) browser URL authentication. In order to exploit the potential for command injection, an attacker would need to be successful in (1) establishing a malicious resource and (2) redirecting users to utilize the resource. The attacker could set up a malicious, publicly accessible server which responds to the SSO URL with an attack payload. If the attacker then tricked a user into visiting the maliciously crafted connection URL, the user’s local machine would render the malicious payload, leading to a remote code execution. This attack scenario can be mitigated through URL whitelisting as well as common anti-phishing resources. A patch is available in version 1.6.19.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on snowflakedb gosnowflake, github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake, upgrade to a fixed version (1.6.19) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake/security/advisories/GHSA-fwv2-65wh-2w8c
- https://github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake/pull/757
- https://github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake/commit/e11a2a555f1b9f7adc1f01fb7b5e7f38fbbb2a1c

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