CVE-2025-12414

Looker account compromise via punycode homograph attack

State
Published
Severity
9.2 Critical
Published
Nov 20, 2025
Updated
Nov 20, 2025
Reserved
Oct 28, 2025

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Description

An attacker could take over a Looker account in a Looker instance configured with OIDC authentication, due to email address string normalization.Looker-hosted and Self-hosted were found to be vulnerable.

This issue has already been mitigated for Looker-hosted.

Self-hosted instances must be upgraded as soon as possible. This vulnerability has been patched in all supported versions of Self-hosted. The versions below have all been updated to protect from this vulnerability. You can download these versions at the Looker download page https://download.looker.com/ : * 24.12.100+ * 24.18.193+ * 25.0.69+ * 25.6.57+ * 25.8.39+ * 25.10.22+ * 25.12.0+

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.2 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:AmberGoogleCloud

Weaknesses

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LookerGoogle Cloud
  • before 24.12.100Affected
  • before 24.18.193Affected
  • before 25.0.69Affected
  • before 25.6.57Affected
  • before 25.8.39Affected
  • before 25.10.22Affected
  • before 25.12.0Affected
LookerGoogle Cloud
  • before 24.12.100Affected
  • before 24.18.193Affected
  • before 25.0.69Affected
  • before 25.6.57Affected
  • before 25.8.39Affected
  • before 25.10.22Affected
  • before 25.12.0Affected

References

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