CVE-2025-50213 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-75 vulnerability in apache-airflow-providers-snowflake. A fix is available for apache-airflow-providers-snowflake — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Apache Airflow Providers Snowflake: Potential SQL injection in CopyFromExternalStageToSnowflakeOperator
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2025-50213.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
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Real-World Exposure
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Description
Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) vulnerability in Apache Airflow Providers Snowflake.
This issue affects Apache Airflow Providers Snowflake: before 6.4.0.
Sanitation of table and stage parameters were added in CopyFromExternalStageToSnowflakeOperator to prevent SQL injection Users are recommended to upgrade to version 6.4.0, which fixes the issue.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | apache-airflow-providers-snowflake | all versions | 6.4.0pip install --upgrade 'apache-airflow-providers-snowflake==6.4.0' |
Affected Products
apache-airflow-providers-snowflakeapacheDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for apache-airflow-providers-snowflake, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update apache-airflow-providers-snowflake to 6.4.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2025-50213 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Until you can upgrade, make sure every query built from user input uses parameterised statements or a prepared-statement API rather than string concatenation, and reduce the database account's privileges so an injected query cannot read or alter data beyond what the feature needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
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