CVE-2025-12155 Command Injection in Looker
Attackers with Developer permissions can execute arbitrary shell commands via improper file path sanitization in Looker.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-12155?
CVE-2025-12155 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Google Cloud Looker, published on 10 Nov 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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+
Weakness: CWE-77
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12155?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12155?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12155 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2025-12155 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12155 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w7m5-fqxg-p9q5.