Cloud Looker
CVE-2024-8912
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V4 - API and Web Service HTTP request consistency
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| Impact | CVSS score of 8.9 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could manipulate HTTP request interpretation between frontend and backend servers by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
An HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability in Looker allowed an unauthorized attacker to capture HTTP responses destined for legitimate users. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Enforce strict HTTP parsing, normalize requests at proxy layer, use HTTP/2 end-to-end, reject ambiguous headers.
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This vulnerability is classified as HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CWE-444), which allows attackers to manipulate HTTP request interpretation between frontend and backend servers. An HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability in Looker allowed an unauthorized attacker to capture HTTP responses destined for legitimate users. There are two Looker versions that are hosted by Looker: * Looker (Google Cloud core) was found to be vulnerable. This issue has already been mitigated and our investigation has found no signs of exploitation. * Looker (original) was not vulnerable to this issue. Customer-hosted Looker instances were found to be vulnerable and must be upgraded. This vulnerability has been patched in all supported versions of customer-hosted Looker, which are available on the Looker download page https://download.looker.com/ . For Looker customer-hosted instances, please update to the latest supported version of Looker as soon as possible. The versions below have all been updated to protect from this vulnerability. You can download these versions at the Looker download page: * 23.12 -> 23.12.123+ * 23.18 -> 23.18.117+ * 24.0 -> 24.0.92+ * 24.6 -> 24.6.77+ * 24.8 -> 24.8.66+ * 24.10 -> 24.10.78+ * 24.12 -> 24.12.56+ * 24.14 -> 24.14.37+ Affected products include: Google Cloud Looker.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
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CVSS VectorVendor: google
DescriptionCVE.org
An HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability in Looker allowed an unauthorized attacker to capture HTTP responses destined for legitimate users.
There are two Looker versions that are hosted by Looker:
- Looker (Google Cloud core) was found to be vulnerable. This issue has already been mitigated and our investigation has found no signs of exploitation.
- Looker (original) was not vulnerable to this issue.
Customer-hosted Looker instances were found to be vulnerable and must be upgraded.
This vulnerability has been patched in all supported versions of customer-hosted Looker, which are available on the Looker download page https://download.looker.com/ .
For Looker customer-hosted instances, please update to the latest supported version of Looker as soon as possible. The versions below have all been updated to protect from this vulnerability. You can download these versions at the Looker download page:
- 23.12 -> 23.12.123+
- 23.18 -> 23.18.117+
- 24.0 -> 24.0.92+
- 24.6 -> 24.6.77+
- 24.8 -> 24.8.66+
- 24.10 -> 24.10.78+
- 24.12 -> 24.12.56+
- 24.14 -> 24.14.37+
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
HTTP request smuggling exploits inconsistencies in how front-end and back-end servers parse HTTP message boundaries.
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