diff --git a/src/snowflake/connector/file_transfer_agent.py b/src/snowflake/connector/file_transfer_agent.py
index 2f22078b24..9b7a353e44 100644
--- a/src/snowflake/connector/file_transfer_agent.py
+++ b/src/snowflake/connector/file_transfer_agent.py
@@ -879,7 +879,8 @@ def _expand_filenames(self, locations: list[str]) -> list[str]:
                     file_name = file_name[1:]
                 if not os.path.isabs(file_name):
                     file_name = os.path.abspath(file_name)
-                files = glob.glob(file_name)
+                safe_file_name = glob.escape(file_name)
+                files = glob.glob(safe_file_name)
                 canonical_locations += files
             else:
                 canonical_locations.append(file_name)