CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-42208
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
BerriAI LiteLLM SQL Injection Vulnerability — BerriAI LiteLLM
BerriAI LiteLLM contains a SQL injection vulnerability that allows an attacker to read data from the proxy's database and potentially modify it, leading to unauthorized access to the proxy and the credentials it manages.
- Added to KEV
- 2026-05-08
- Remediation due
- 2026-05-11
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Notes
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/security/advisories/GHSA-r75f-5x8p-qvmc ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42208
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 CRITICAL — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-89
Description
LiteLLM is a proxy server (AI Gateway) to call LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format. From version 1.81.16 to before version 1.83.7, a database query used during proxy API key checks mixed the caller-supplied key value into the query text instead of passing it as a separate parameter. An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted Authorization header to any LLM API route (for example POST /chat/completions) and reach this query through the proxy's error-handling path. An attacker could read data from the proxy's database and may be able to modify it, leading to unauthorised access to the proxy and the credentials it manages. This issue has been patched in version 1.83.7.
Affected configurations
• litellm litellm (>= 1.81.16 < 1.83.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/releases/tag/v1.83.7-stable Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/security/advisories/GHSA-r75f-5x8p-qvmc Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42208 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463965 Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42208.json Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-42208 US Government Resource