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TI-2024-08342 Aliases CVE-2024-8984GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x

Denial of Service (DoS) in berriai/litellm

Priority HIGH 72CWE-770Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in berriai/litellm version v1.44.5. This vulnerability can be exploited by appending characters, such as dashes (-), to the end of a multipart boundary in an HTTP request. The server continuously processes each character, leading to excessive resource consumption and rendering the service unavailable. The issue is unauthenticated and does not require any user interaction, impacting all users of the service.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00857 58th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed berriai/litellm (berriai): v1.65.4-stablelitellm (PyPI): 1.56.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
BerriAIberriai/litellmbefore v1.65.4-stablev1.65.4-stablePatch availableCNA
—litellm (PyPI)before 1.56.21.56.2Patch availableGHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x
  • berriai/litellm VendorBerriAI Affected before v1.65.4-stable Fixed in v1.65.4-stable Patch available CNA
  • litellm (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 1.56.2 Fixed in 1.56.2 Patch available GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x

CPE configurations NVD · 5

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.65.4VulnerableBerriAI
cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev2:*:*:*:*:*:*1.65.4 dev2VulnerableBerriAI
cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev6:*:*:*:*:*:*1.65.4 dev6VulnerableBerriAI
cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev8:*:*:*:*:*:*1.65.4 dev8VulnerableBerriAI
cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:nightly:*:*:*:*:*:*1.65.4 nightlyVulnerableBerriAI
  • cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.65.4 Vulnerable ·BerriAI
  • cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev2:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.65.4 dev2 Vulnerable ·BerriAI
  • cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev6:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.65.4 dev6 Vulnerable ·BerriAI
  • cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev8:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.65.4 dev8 Vulnerable ·BerriAI
  • cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:nightly:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.65.4 nightly Vulnerable ·BerriAI

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA berriai/litellm (berriai) Fixed in v1.65.4-stable
  • Fix · GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x litellm (PyPI) Fixed in 1.56.2 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-8984
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x

References

  • TI-2026-26015 Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised KEVCVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4
  • TI-2026-30529 LiteLLM: SQL injection in Proxy API key verification KEVCVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-30582 LiteLLM: Authenticated command execution via MCP stdio test endpoints KEVCVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-42639 LiteLLM: MCP Authentication Bypass via OAuth2 Passthrough Fallback KEVCVSS 4.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2024-05340 Remote Code Execution in BerriAI/litellm CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2024-02760 Server-Side Template Injection in BerriAI/litellm CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
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