CVE-2025-12472

Remote Code Execution in Looker due to Improperly Validated Directory Deletion

HIGH

7.1

CVSS Score

Published: November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM UTC

Updated: October 18, 2026 at 08:10 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorLooker

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Severity

HIGH7.1

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.3%

SSVC

No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Looker · Google Cloud

90%

0 ≤ v < 24.12.1030 ≤ v < 24.18.1950 ≤ v < 25.0.720 ≤ v < 25.10.220 ≤ v < 25.6.600 ≤ v < 25.8.420

Affected range stops below 24.12.103, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 24.18.195, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 25.0.72, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 25.10.22, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 25.6.60, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 25.8.42, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

Source: cverecord

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

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.1HIGHGoogleCloud

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED

CWE

CWE-362

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