India, March 12 -- Tenable researchers have identified a series of security vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries and extract sensitive data from victims' databases within Google Cloud environments.

The vulnerabilities, collectively named LeakyLooker, include nine cross-tenant security flaws that could potentially expose data across organisations using the analytics platform. According to the research findings, the weaknesses affected multiple connectors commonly used in cloud analytics deployments.

These connectors include services such as Google Sheets, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Google Cloud Storage.

Looker Studio is designed to provide live analytics...