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CVE-2025-12472: Remote Code Execution in Looker due to Improperly Validated Directory Deletion

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.27% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: Google Cloud Looker 24.12.103, 24.18.195, 25.0.72.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Google Cloud Looker 24.12.103, 24.18.195, 25.0.72 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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+

HighCVSS 7.1 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Nov 19, 2025
Updated
Oct 18, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 19th percentile

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Action score

28

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
28 / 40 · 7.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GoogleCloud
7.1
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GoogleCloud). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Google Cloud Looker

    • before 24.12.103affected · date
    • before 24.18.195affected · date
    • before 25.0.72affected · date
    • before 25.6.60affected · date
    • before 25.8.42affected · date
    • before 25.10.22affected · date
    • before 24.12.103affected · date
    • before 24.18.195affected · date
    • before 25.0.72affected · date
    • before 25.6.60affected · date

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2025-12414Looker account compromise via punycode homograph attack
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2026-15810Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Looker allows Admin Account Takeover
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2025-12742Remote Code Execution in Looker via Teradata JDBC Driver
    30Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-12155Nov 10, 2025 · Command Injection in Looker
    28Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-12743Nov 19, 2025 · SQL Injection in Looker Project Generation Endpoint Allows Access to Internal MySQL Database
    24Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-12739Nov 24, 2025 · Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Looker's Extension Loader leading to Admin Account Compromise
    29Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Google Cloud Looker24.12.103Vendor (CNA)
Google Cloud Looker24.18.195Vendor (CNA)
Google Cloud Looker25.0.72Vendor (CNA)
Google Cloud Looker25.10.22Vendor (CNA)
Google Cloud Looker25.6.60Vendor (CNA)
Google Cloud Looker25.8.42Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

  • RyotaKFlatt Security Inc.finder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

  • CVE-2025-124141 days apartLooker account compromise via punycode homograph attack
    36Monitor

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
A
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

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

CVSS 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Red

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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