GHSA-33g6-495w-v8j2 — medium GitHub Advisory (CVE-2025-24790) in maven/net.snowflake:snowflake-jdbc

Description

Issue

Snowflake discovered and remediated a vulnerability in the Snowflake JDBC Driver. On Linux systems, when temporary credential caching is enabled, the Snowflake JDBC Driver will cache temporary credentials locally in a world-readable file.

This vulnerability affects versions 3.6.8 through 3.21.0. Snowflake fixed the issue in version 3.22.0.

Vulnerability Details

On Linux, when either EXTERNALBROWSER or USERNAME_PASSWORD_MFA authentication methods are used with temporary credential caching enabled, the Snowflake JDBC Driver will cache temporary credentials in a local file. In the vulnerable versions of the Driver, this file is created with world-readable permissions.

Solution

Snowflake released version 3.22.0 of the Snowflake JDBC Driver, which fixes this issue. We recommend users upgrade to version 3.22.0.

Additional Information

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Basic information

Type: reviewed
Severity: medium
Advisory on GitHub: Open advisory ↗
Repository advisory: Open repository advisory ↗
Source code: Browse source ↗
Published (advisory): 2025-01-29 18:42:07 UTC
Updated: 2025-01-29 18:42:08 UTC
GitHub reviewed: 2025-01-29 18:42:07 UTC
NVD published: 2025-01-29

Score	Percentile
0.09%	25.01%

CVSS Scores

Base score	Version	Severity	Vector
4.4	3.1	—	`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N` Click to expand Attack vector (AV:L) They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by. Attack complexity (AC:L) Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup. Privileges required (PR:L) A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin. User interaction (UI:N) Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping. Scope (S:U) Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems. Confidentiality (C:L) Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump. Integrity (I:L) Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes. Availability (A:N) Service keeps running; no real outage angle.

Identifiers

Type	Value
GHSA	GHSA-33g6-495w-v8j2 ↗
CVE	CVE-2025-24790 ↗

CWEs

CWE id	Name
CWE-276	Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable range	First patched	Vulnerable functions
maven	net.snowflake:snowflake-jdbc	>= 3.6.8, <= 3.21.0	3.22.0	—

Snowflake JDBC uses insecure temporary credential cache file permissions