CVE-2025-12472

Remote Code Execution in Looker due to Improperly Validated Directory Deletion

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Nov 19, 2025
Updated
Nov 19, 2025
Reserved
Oct 29, 2025

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Description

An attacker with a Looker Developer role could manipulate a LookML project to exploit a race condition during Git directory deletion, leading to arbitrary command execution on the Looker instance.

Looker-hosted and Self-hosted were found to be vulnerable. This issue has already been mitigated for Looker-hosted instances. No user action is required for these.

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/ : * 24.12.103+ * 24.18.195+ * 25.0.72+ * 25.6.60+ * 25.8.42+ * 25.10.22+

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:RedGoogleCloud

Weaknesses

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LookerGoogle Cloud
  • before 24.12.103Affected
  • before 24.18.195Affected
  • before 25.0.72Affected
  • before 25.6.60Affected
  • before 25.8.42Affected
  • before 25.10.22Affected
LookerGoogle Cloud
  • before 24.12.103Affected
  • before 24.18.195Affected
  • before 25.0.72Affected
  • before 25.6.60Affected
  • before 25.8.42Affected
  • before 25.10.22Affected

References

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