Local denial of service via unsafe proxy regex
Published Feb 27, 2026 · Updated Feb 27, 2026
Regular expression denial of service in Snowflake JDBC Driver 4.0.0 through 4.0.1 allows local users to exhaust CPU via a crafted JDBC URL. SdkProxyRoutePlanner passes nonProxyHosts entries to String.matches as Java regular expressions without escaping metacharacters, enabling catastrophic backtracking. Exploitation requires an application to accept an attacker-controlled JDBC URL; connection initialization can hang while exhausting a CPU core.
Summary
What happened
Regular expression denial of service in Snowflake JDBC Driver 4.0.0 through 4.0.1 allows local users to exhaust CPU via a crafted JDBC URL. SdkProxyRoutePlanner passes nonProxyHosts entries to String.matches as Java regular expressions without escaping metacharacters, enabling catastrophic backtracking. Exploitation requires an application to accept an attacker-controlled JDBC URL; connection initialization can hang while exhausting a CPU core.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-3293
- Published
- Feb 27, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 27, 2026
- Vendor
- Snowflake
- Product
- Snowflake JDBC Driver
- Classifications
- CWE-1333, CWE-400, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 27, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 27, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=4.0.0
- Affected versionversion=4.0.1
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Public exploit references
- JDBC URL catastrophic-backtracking proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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