Improper Following of Specification by Caller Affecting snowflakedb/libsnowflakeclient package, versions [0.5.0,2.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SNOWFLAKEDBLIBSNOWFLAKECLIENT-10500757
  • published26 Jun 2025
  • disclosed29 Apr 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Apr 2025

CVE-2025-46330  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-573  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade snowflakedb/libsnowflakeclient to version 2.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Following of Specification by Caller due to the incorrect handling of malformed requests with 400 status code as retryable. An attacker can cause the application to hang by repeatedly sending such requests until the maximum retry limit set in SF_CON_MAX_RETRY (7 by default) is reached.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1