{"id":"GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhf","summary":"Snowflake JDBC allows an untrusted search path on Windows","details":"### Issue\nSnowflake 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.\n\nThis vulnerability affects versions 3.2.3 through 3.21.0 on Windows. Snowflake fixed the issue in version 3.22.0.\n\n### Vulnerability Details\nWhen the EXTERNALBROWSER authentication method is selected, the Snowflake JDBC Driver on non-macOS operating systems tries to open the SSO URL using xdg-open. Because xdg-open is a Linux program that doesn’t exist in a default Windows installation, a sufficiently privileged attacker could place a malicious executable in one of the directories on the %PATH% and achieve local privilege escalation to the user running the JDBC Driver.\n\n### Solution\nSnowflake released version 3.22.0 of the Snowflake JDBC Driver, which fixes this issue. We recommend users upgrade to version 3.22.0.\n\n### Additional Information\nIf you discover a security vulnerability in one of our products or websites, please report the issue to HackerOne. For more information, please see our [Vulnerability Disclosure Policy](https://hackerone.com/snowflake?type=team).","aliases":["CVE-2025-24789"],"modified":"2026-07-17T21:06:42.255449908Z","published":"2025-01-29T18:41:57Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2025-01-29T18:41:57Z","nvd_published_at":"2025-01-29T18:15:47Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-426"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/security/advisories/GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhf"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24789"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc/commit/4f01bb8f9b708c71e7a2111c87371dbfc1d53dd6"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-jdbc"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"net.snowflake:snowflake-jdbc","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/net.snowflake/snowflake-jdbc"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"3.2.3"},{"fixed":"3.22.0"}]}],"versions":["3.10.0","3.10.1","3.10.2","3.10.3","3.11.0","3.11.1","3.12.0","3.12.1","3.12.10","3.12.11","3.12.12","3.12.13","3.12.14","3.12.15","3.12.16","3.12.17","3.12.2","3.12.3","3.12.4","3.12.5","3.12.6","3.12.7","3.12.8","3.12.9","3.13.0","3.13.1","3.13.10","3.13.11","3.13.12","3.13.13","3.13.14","3.13.15","3.13.16","3.13.17","3.13.18","3.13.19","3.13.2","3.13.20","3.13.21","3.13.22","3.13.23","3.13.24","3.13.25","3.13.26","3.13.27","3.13.28","3.13.29","3.13.3","3.13.30","3.13.31","3.13.32","3.13.33","3.13.34","3.13.4","3.13.5","3.13.6","3.13.7","3.13.8","3.13.9","3.14.0","3.14.1","3.14.2","3.14.3","3.14.4","3.14.5","3.15.0","3.15.1","3.16.0","3.16.1","3.17.0","3.17.1","3.18.0","3.18.1","3.19.0","3.19.1","3.2.3","3.2.4","3.2.5","3.2.6","3.2.7","3.20.0","3.20.1","3.21.0","3.21.1","3.3.0","3.3.1","3.3.2","3.3.3","3.4.0","3.4.1","3.4.2","3.4.3","3.5.0","3.5.1","3.5.2","3.5.3","3.5.4","3.5.5","3.6.0","3.6.1","3.6.10","3.6.11","3.6.12","3.6.13","3.6.14","3.6.15","3.6.16","3.6.17","3.6.18","3.6.19","3.6.2","3.6.20","3.6.21","3.6.22","3.6.23","3.6.24","3.6.25","3.6.26","3.6.27","3.6.28","3.6.3","3.6.4","3.6.5","3.6.6","3.6.7","3.6.8","3.6.9","3.7.0","3.7.1","3.7.2","3.8.0","3.8.1","3.8.2","3.8.3","3.8.4","3.8.5","3.8.6","3.8.7","3.8.8","3.9.0","3.9.1","3.9.2"],"database_specific":{"last_known_affected_version_range":"\u003c= 3.21.0","source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/01/GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhf/GHSA-7hpq-3g6w-pvhf.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}