CVE-2025-12414

Looker account compromise via punycode homograph attack

Published Nov 20, 2025 CVSS 4.0 · 9.2 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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+

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Google
Google cloud Looker
Vendors & Products Google
Google cloud Looker
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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+
Title Looker account compromise via punycode homograph attack
Weaknesses CWE-290
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.2, 'vector': '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'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GoogleCloud
Published
Updated
Nov 20, 2025, 2:36 PM
Reserved
Oct 28, 2025, 3:40 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Nov 20, 2025, 3:17 PM
Modified
Oct 18, 2026, 8:10 PM