CVE-2026-86600
In affected Snowflake drivers, WORKLOAD_IDENTITY authentication requests a cloud workload-identity token and attaches it to the login request without verifying that the configured host is a Snowflake endpoint. An attacker who can modify the connection configuration can cause the driver to mint a fresh attestation and send it to a host they control. The captured token can be replayed to Snowflake for its remaining lifetime in accounts where that workload identity is already registered. On Azure, the token audience is also taken from connection configuration. Combined with an attacker-controlled host, the driver can request a Managed Identity access token scoped to a non-Snowflake Azure resource and deliver it to the attacker. That path is the only case in which impact extends beyond Snowflake; it is bounded by the token lifetime and the managed identity’s permissions. Successful exploitation requires WORKLOAD_IDENTITY authentication on a workload that already has an ambient cloud identity. Patched driver versions restrict this authenticator to recognized Snowflake hosts. Users must manually upgrade.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.3% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 23% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 8.2 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-441
- Assigned by
- 412d305a-227d-44f9-a262-a31ba44f2aea
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-09-10
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/clients-drivers/dotnet-2026#version-610-september-3-2026
- https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/clients-drivers/golang-2026#version-220-sep-03-2026
- https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/clients-drivers/jdbc-2026#version-434-sep-03-2026
- https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/clients-drivers/nodejs-2026#version-330-september-3-2026
- https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/clients-drivers/odbc-2026#version-3200-sep-3-2026
- https://docs.snowflake.com/en/release-notes/clients-drivers/php-pdo-2026#version-420-sep-3-2026
- https://github.com/snowflakedb/libsnowflakeclient/releases/tag/v2.10.0
- https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-python/releases/tag/v4.7.3