CVE-2022-42965: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

November 9, 2022 (updated September 25, 2023)

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the snowflake-connector-python PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the get_file_transfer_type method

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42965
research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/snowflake-connector-python-redos-xray-257185/

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