Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting snowflake-connector-python package, versions [,4.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-SNOWFLAKECONNECTORPYTHON-13803382
  • published2 Nov 2025
  • disclosed1 Nov 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Nov 2025

New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade snowflake-connector-python to version 4.0.0 or higher.

Overview

snowflake-connector-python is a Snowflake Connector for Python

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource via the ConfigManager.read_config path in config_manager.py. An attacker can modify sensitive settings stored in the configuration file if its permissions allow write access by the group or other users

Note: This is only exploitable when the stat.S_IWGRP or stat.S_IWOTH are set.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1