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+
Published: 2025-11-19
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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History

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:45:00 +0000

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

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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+
Title Remote Code Execution in Looker due to Improperly Validated Directory Deletion
Weaknesses CWE-362
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, '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'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GoogleCloud

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-19T16:24:04.479Z

Reserved: 2025-10-29T15:56:30.205Z

Link: CVE-2025-12472

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-19T16:21:20.844Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-11-19T11:15:44.383

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-12472

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-11-20T10:30:58Z

Weaknesses