A Command Injection vulnerability, resulting from improper file path sanitization (Directory Traversal) in Looker allows an attacker with Developer permission to execute arbitrary shell commands when a user is deleted on the host system.

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/ :
* 24.12.100+
* 24.18.192+
* 25.0.69+
* 25.6.57+
* 25.8.39+
* 25.10.22+

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Attack Requirements Present

User Interaction Active

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00636.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
Google Cloud Looker unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected < 24.12.100
0 affected < 24.18.192
0 affected < 25.0.69
0 affected < 25.6.57
0 affected < 25.8.39
0 affected < 25.10.22
Google Cloud Looker unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected < 24.12.100
0 affected < 24.18.192
0 affected < 25.0.69
0 affected < 25.6.57
0 affected < 25.8.39
0 affected < 25.10.22

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https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#gcp-2025-052 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Google
Google cloud Looker
Vendors & Products Google
Google cloud Looker

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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Description A Command Injection vulnerability, resulting from improper file path sanitization (Directory Traversal) in Looker allows an attacker with Developer permission to execute arbitrary shell commands when a user is deleted on the host system. 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/ : * 24.12.100+ * 24.18.192+ * 25.0.69+ * 25.6.57+ * 25.8.39+ * 25.10.22+
Title Command Injection in Looker
Weaknesses CWE-77
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/AU:Y/U:Red'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GoogleCloud

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-10T15:18:43.851Z

Reserved: 2025-10-24T13:07:55.182Z

Link: CVE-2025-12155

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-10T15:18:39.961Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-11-10T09:15:41.620

Modified: 2025-11-12T16:19:59.103

Link: CVE-2025-12155

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-11-12T12:50:20Z

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