Privilege escalation in Google Cloud Looker Studio

CVE-2025-12405

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.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published · last modified .

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (15.4th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 15th percentile — 15.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-12405: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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