Untrusted search path in snowflake-jdbc - CVE-2025-24789
Published: June 27, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU112017
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-24789
CWE-ID: CWE-426
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of an untrusted search path. A local user with write access to a directory in the %PATH% can escalate their privileges to the user that runs the vulnerable JDBC Driver version, when EXTERNALBROWSER authentication method is used on Windows.
Affected software
snowflake-jdbc
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
How to mitigate CVE-2025-24789
Install updates from vendor's website.
snowflake-jdbc - update to 3.22.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.10.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.10.0