Google Looker Studio 2025-07-07 privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Google Looker Studio. This affects an unknown function. This manipulation causes privileges management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-12405. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. This product is available as a managed service. Users are not able to maintain vulnerability countermeasures themselves. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Google Looker Studio. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An improper privilege management vulnerability was found in Looker Studio. It impacted all JDBC-based connectors. A Looker Studio user with report view access could make a copy of the report and execute arbitrary SQL that would run on the data source database due to the stored credentials attached to the report. This vulnerability was patched on 21 July 2025, and no customer action is needed.

The weakness was shared by Liv Matan as gcp-2025-053. The advisory is shared at cloud.google.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-12405 since 10/28/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/10/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 2025-07-21 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-44043). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Upgrade: Looker Studio 2025-07-21

Timelineinfo

07/21/2025 Countermeasure disclosed
10/28/2025 +99 days CVE reserved
11/10/2025 +13 days Advisory disclosed
11/10/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
11/10/2025 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: google.com

Advisory: gcp-2025-053
Researcher: Liv Matan
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-12405 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-12405
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-331669
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Entryinfo

Created: 11/10/2025 11:58
Updated: 11/10/2025 12:04
Changes: 11/10/2025 11:58 (71), 11/10/2025 12:04 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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