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

CVE ID : CVE-2025-12472

Published : Nov. 19, 2025, 10:27 a.m. | 37 minutes ago

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+

Severity: 7.1 | HIGH

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