CVE-2025-12740 – Remote Command Execution in Looker via IBM DB2 JDBC drive

CVE ID : CVE-2025-12740

Published : Nov. 24, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

Description : A Looker user with a Developer role could create a database connection using IBM DB2 driver and, by manipulating LookML, cause Looker to execute a malicious command, due to inadequate filtering of the driver’s parameters.

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/ :
* 25.0.93+
* 25.6.84+

* 25.12.42+
* 25.14.50+
* 25.16.44+

Severity: 7.7 | HIGH

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