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CVE-2025-50213

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) vulnerability in Apache Airflow

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.

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 0.00488
Schedule remediation
  • SSVC automatable: yes - attacks can be scripted at scale
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-75Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
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Affected Products & Versions

1
apache apache-airflow-providers-snowflake< 6.4.0
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI apache-airflow-providers-snowflake CRITICAL fixed in 6.4.0
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Scoring & Timeline

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS v3.1 · security@apache.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD24 Jun 2025 · 08:15 AM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
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References & Sources

2
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/51734Issue TrackingPatch
https://lists.apache.org/thread/2kqfmyt2pghg5f6797g8hzvq331v8qx3Mailing ListVendor Advisory
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