High severity · published Nov 10, 2025
CVE-2025-12155
Command Injection in Looker
7.1
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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+
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 69% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LO
Looker · Google Cloud
before 24.12.100; before 24.18.192; before 25.0.69; before 25.6.57; before 25.8.39; before 25.10.22; +6 more · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12155
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12155
cloud.google.com
https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#gcp-2025-052
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