{"id":"CVE-2025-12740","aliases":["EUVD-2025-198628","GHSA-6543-fhjm-g9h2"],"status":"published","title":"Remote Command Execution in Looker via IBM DB2 JDBC drive","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.\n\nLooker-hosted and Self-hosted were found to be vulnerable.\nThis issue has already been mitigated for Looker-hosted instances. No user action is required for these.\n\n\nSelf-hosted instances must be upgraded as soon as possible. This vulnerability has been patched in all supported versions of Self-hosted.\nThe 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/ :\n  *  25.0.93+\n  *  25.6.84+\n\n  *  25.12.42+\n  *  25.14.50+\n  *  25.16.44+","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":7.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Red","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00263,"percentile":0.18245,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-20"],"published":"2025-11-24T11:30:31Z","modified":"2026-10-08T10:10:00Z","products":[{"vendor":"google cloud","product":"looker"}],"references":[{"url":"https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#gcp-2025-052"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12740"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6543-fhjm-g9h2"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-12740","title":"Remote Command Execution in Looker via IBM DB2 JDBC drive","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.\n\nLooker-hosted and Self-hosted were found to be vulnerable.\nThis issue has already been mitigated for Looker-hosted instances. No user action is required for these.\n\n\nSelf-hosted instances must be upgraded as soon as possible. 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You can download these versions at the Looker download page  https://download.looker.com/ :\n  *  25.0.93+\n  *  25.6.84+\n\n  *  25.12.42+\n  *  25.14.50+\n  *  25.16.44+","status":"published","published":"2025-11-24T11:30:31.958Z","modified":"2025-11-24T13:14:36.77Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Red","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-20"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:42.078906Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-198628","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.\n\nLooker-hosted and Self-hosted were found to be vulnerable.\nThis issue has already been mitigated for Looker-hosted instances. No user action is required for these.\n\n\nSelf-hosted instances must be upgraded as soon as possible. This vulnerability has been patched in all supported versions of Self-hosted.\nThe 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/ :\n  *  25.0.93+\n  *  25.6.84+\n\n  *  25.12.42+\n  *  25.14.50+\n  *  25.16.44+","status":"published","published":"2025-11-24T11:30:31Z","modified":"2025-11-24T13:14:36Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Red","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:49:13.187271Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-6543-fhjm-g9h2","title":"A Looker user with a Developer role could create a database connection using IBM DB2 driver and,...","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.\n\nLooker-hosted and Self-hosted were found to be vulnerable.\nThis issue has already been mitigated for Looker-hosted instances. No user action is required for these.\n\n\nSelf-hosted instances must be upgraded as soon as possible. This vulnerability has been patched in all supported versions of Self-hosted.\nThe 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/ :\n  *  25.0.93+\n  *  25.6.84+\n\n  *  25.12.42+\n  *  25.14.50+\n  *  25.16.44+","status":"published","published":"2025-11-24T12:30:29Z","modified":"2025-11-24T12:30:29Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":7.7,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/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","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-20"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:04:55.324477Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-12740","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.\n\nLooker-hosted and Self-hosted were found to be vulnerable.\nThis issue has already been mitigated for Looker-hosted instances. No user action is required for these.\n\n\nSelf-hosted instances must be upgraded as soon as possible. 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