GHSA-7hp6-4w63-5g45
LiteLLM: Privilege Escalation to Proxy Admin via Cross-Domain Reuse of the Salt Key
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-114612
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
### Summary An authenticated user with `internal_user` privileges can escalate to `proxy_admin` and achieve remote code execution. The proxy uses one encryption key for two purposes: sealing secrets at rest and minting session tokens. An attacker exploits this by requesting a new API key with a crafted metadata field containing a forged admin credential as the "secret" value. The proxy encrypts and returns this payload. When this value is then presented as a bearer token, the proxy decrypts it, trusts the forged admin identity, and grants full administrative access, including the ability to execute arbitrary commands via the MCP stdio endpoint. ### Affected versions Versions later than 1.91.0 are exploitable in the default configuration. Versions 1.87.0 through 1.90.x are exploitable only if `EXPERIMENTAL_UI_LOGIN=true` was explicitly set. ### Mitigation Upgrade to a patched version as soon as possible. If you cannot upgrade immediately, set `EXPERIMENTAL_UI_LOGIN=false`. This disables the vulnerable authentication path but also breaks CLI SSO and Claude Code gateway login. ### Impact An internal user can escalate to proxy admin and execute arbitrary commands on the host. **Discovery Credit:** Hoa X. Nguyen (OPSWAT Unit 515)
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| PyPI · litellm | introduced 1.91.0, fixed 1.100.4 |
| PyPI · litellm | introduced 1.101.0, fixed 1.101.3 |
| PyPI · litellm | introduced 1.102.0, fixed 1.102.2 |
| PyPI · litellm | introduced 1.103.0, fixed 1.103.1 |
| PyPI · litellm | introduced 1.104.0rc1, fixed 1.104.0rc2 |
References
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/security/advisories/GHSA-7hp6-4w63-5g45 WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-114612 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/commit/1d5fdc87fed66b49e1df8cf7d708ad93249eb7d0 WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/commit/9161d7f9d6073603ba61ee4aa5e2c0ef5b37a81b WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/commit/9fa1a641119dd0d4fe43e93622eae5f482ceb63f WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/commit/a80eacacee118fbed54e3d98f239d17a63fac818 WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/commit/f7cd90f09e9716652b38daec9f0640cdf49d582b WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm PACKAGE
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/releases/tag/v1.100.4 WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/releases/tag/v1.101.3 WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/releases/tag/v1.102.2 WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/releases/tag/v1.103.1 WEB
- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/releases/tag/v1.104.0-rc.2 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |