BerriAI LiteLLM Command Injection Vulnerability
LiteLLM is a proxy server (AI Gateway) to call LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format. From version 1.74.2 to before version 1.83.7, two endpoints used to preview an MCP server before saving it — POST /mcp-rest/test/connection and POST /mcp-rest/test/tools/list — accepted a full server configuration in the request body, including the command, args, and env fields used by the stdio transport. When called with a stdio configuration, the endpoints attempted to connect, which spawned the supplied command as a subprocess on the proxy host with the privileges of the proxy process. The endpoints were gated only by a valid proxy API key, with no role check. Any authenticated user — including holders of low-privilege internal-user keys — could therefore run arbitrary commands on the host. This issue has been patched in version 1.83.7.
BerriAI LiteLLM Command Injection Vulnerability
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https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/releases/tag/v1.83.7-stable
https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/security/advisories/GHSA-v4p8-mg3p-g94g
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27784
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28960
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30056
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42271
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2467924
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42271.json
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-42271
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42271
