Snowflake Golang Driver vulnerable to Command Injection

Exploitation

No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.

CVSS

7.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS

• CVE-2023-34231: 1.96% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 80.35 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

Issue Snowflake was informed via our bug bounty program of a command injection vulnerability in the Snowflake Golang driver via SSO browser URL authentication. Impacted driver package: gosnowflake Impacted version range: before Version 1.6.19 Attack Scenario In order to exploit the potential for command injection, an attacker would need to be successful in (1) establishing a malicious resource and (2) redirecting users to utilize the resource. The attacker could set up a malicious, publicly accessible server which responds to the SSO URL with an attack payload. If the attacker then tricked a user into visiting the maliciously crafted connection URL, the user’s local machine would render the malicious payload, leading to a remote code execution. This attack scenario can be mitigated through URL whitelisting as well as common anti-phishing resources. Solution On March 21, 2023, Snowflake merged a patch that fixed a command injection vulnerability in the Snowflake Golang driver via SSO…

Published by the source

9 Jun 2023, 22:53 UTC

Last modified by the source

6 Nov 2023, 05:04 UTC

Source last checked

26 Oct 2026, 14:59 UTC

1. Revision 1 · created · 26 Oct 2026

   Published from ghsa record GHSA-fwv2-65wh-2w8c

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2023-34231

Advisory: Snowflake Golang Driver vulnerable to Command Injection
IDs: CVE-2023-34231, GHSA-fwv2-65wh-2w8c
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2023-34231 (revision 1, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 14:59 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.3)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor fix available; fixed versions by package: github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake 1.6.19. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- Go github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake: affected < 1.6.19; fixed in 1.6.19

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- Go github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake: check the installed version with your package manager.

## Supported action
Upgrade each affected component to a fixed version on its release line. For a transitive dependency, upgrade the parent package or add an override or constraint, then regenerate the lockfile. Redeploy every environment that ran an affected version.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fwv2-65wh-2w8c (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-fwv2-65wh-2w8c lists affected ranges: Go github.com/snowflakedb/gosnowflake >=0 <1.6.19)

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