CVE-2022-42965 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the snowflake-connector-python PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the undocumented get_file_transfer_type method

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Snowflake	Snowflake Connector

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:snowflake:snowflake_connector:*:*:*:*:*:python:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/snowflake-connector-python-redos-xray-257185/

History

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Snowflake snowflake Connector
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:snowflake:snowflake-connector-python::::::::	cpe:2.3:a:snowflake:snowflake_connector::::::python::*
Vendors & Products	Snowflake snowflake-connector-python	Snowflake snowflake Connector

Thu, 01 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: JFROG

Published: 2022-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-01T19:19:10.818Z

Reserved: 2022-10-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42965

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:19:05.532Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-11-09T20:15:10.820

Modified: 2026-03-06T19:52:52.550

Link: CVE-2022-42965

Redhat

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