# CVE-2025-46330: Snowflake Connector for C/C++ retries malformed requests

- Severity: CVSS 3.3 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.2.0
- Published: 2025-04-29 · Updated: 2025-04-29

## Affected

- snowflakedb libsnowflakeclient: from 0.5.0, fixed in 2.2.0

## Description

libsnowflakeclient is the Snowflake Connector for C/C++. Versions starting from 0.5.0 to before 2.2.0, incorrectly treat malformed requests that caused the HTTP response status code 400, as able to be retried. This could hang the application until SF_CON_MAX_RETRY requests were sent. This issue has been patched in version 2.2.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on snowflakedb libsnowflakeclient, upgrade to a fixed version (2.2.0) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/snowflakedb/libsnowflakeclient/security/advisories/GHSA-ch37-53v3-m4cm
- https://github.com/snowflakedb/libsnowflakeclient/pull/882/commits/8120a057e041722e114ed2c5dbed3b5a649f72e2

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