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litellm vulnerable to remote code execution based on using eval unsafely

as of Jun 27, 2024 · applies to litellm < 1.40.16 · canonical · codexguild.com/kb/ghsa-gppg-gqw8-wh9g · exported 2026-10-11
Canonical as of Jun 27, 2024

litellm vulnerable to remote code execution based on using eval unsafely

Critical severity. Affects litellm < 1.40.16. Upgrade to 1.40.16 or later.

CVE-2024-5751 / GHSA-gppg-gqw8-wh9g · severity: critical · CVSS 9.8 · PyPI

Affected

  • litellm < 1.40.16 → fixed in 1.40.16

Details

BerriAI/litellm version v1.35.8 contains a vulnerability where an attacker can achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability exists in the add_deployment function, which decodes and decrypts environment variables from base64 and assigns them to os.environ. An attacker can exploit this by sending a malicious payload to the /config/update endpoint, which is then processed and executed by the server when the get_secret function is triggered. This requires the server to use Google KMS and a database to store a model.

Source: GHSA-gppg-gqw8-wh9g — GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY-4.0).