PYSEC-2026-1545
LiteLLM Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via Crafted HTTP Request
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2024-8984
- Aliases
- GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
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.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · litellm | introduced 0, fixed 1.56.2 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8984 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/commit/4f49f836aa844ac9b6bfbeff27e6f6b2b9cf3f61 WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm PACKAGE
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/8c5ff150f6142608ffe968e4e68429f978fda187/litellm/tests/test_spend_logs.py#L242 WEB
- https://huntr.com/bounties/554fc76b-3097-4223-b4cf-110b853e9355 WEB
- https://pypi.org/project/litellm PACKAGE
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x ADVISORY
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database |