---
id: CVE-2025-12155
title: >-
  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.…
summary: >-
  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.…
severity: none
cwe:
  - CWE-77
published: '2025-11-10'
updated: '2026-10-07'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-07T21:10:00.200'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12155'
references:
  - url: 'https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins#gcp-2025-052'
    label: f45cbf4e-4146-4068-b7e1-655ffc2c548c
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.01294
epssPercentile: 0.69436
ingestedAt: '2026-10-07T21:54:15.000Z'
---

## Overview

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+

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.