CVE-2025-12414: critical vulnerability in Google Cloud Looker
Looker account compromise via punycode homograph attack
Published
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.2epss 0.4%
An attacker could take over a Looker account in a Looker instance configured with OIDC authentication, due to email address string normalization.Looker-hosted and Self-hosted were found to be vulnerable.
This issue has already been mitigated for Looker-hosted.
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+
* 24.18.193+
* 25.0.69+
* 25.6.57+
* 25.8.39+
* 25.10.22+
* 25.12.0+
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber
Affected products
Google Cloud · LookerRelated CVEs — Google Cloud Looker
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