# CVE-2025-24789: Snowflake JDBC allows an untrusted search path on Windows

- Also known as: GHSA-7HPQ-3G6W-PVHF
- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.22.0
- Published: 2025-01-29 · Updated: 2025-02-12

## Affected

- snowflakedb snowflake-jdbc: from 3.2.3, fixed in 3.22.0
- net.snowflake:snowflake-jdbc (Maven): from 3.2.3, fixed in 3.22.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on snowflakedb snowflake-jdbc, net.snowflake:snowflake-jdbc, upgrade to a fixed version (3.22.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/security/advisories/GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhf
- https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/commit/4f01bb8f9b708c71e7a2111c87371dbfc1d53dd6

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