Vulnerability · Published Nov 19, 2025 · Assigned by GoogleCloud
CVE-2025-12472Remote Code Execution in Looker due to Improperly Validated Directory Deletion
High 7.1
In plain English
A high-severity race condition in Looker from Google Cloud. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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+
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | Looker | 0 – before 24.12.1030 – before 24.18.1950 – before 25.0.720 – before 25.6.600 – before 25.8.420 – before 25.10.22 |
| Google Cloud | Looker | 0 – before 24.12.1030 – before 24.18.1950 – before 25.0.720 – before 25.6.600 – before 25.8.420 – before 25.10.22 |
Weakness: CWE-362 · Vector: CVSS: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:Red