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

PackageVersions
PyPI · litellmintroduced 1.91.0, fixed 1.100.4
PyPI · litellmintroduced 1.101.0, fixed 1.101.3
PyPI · litellmintroduced 1.102.0, fixed 1.102.2
PyPI · litellmintroduced 1.103.0, fixed 1.103.1
PyPI · litellmintroduced 1.104.0rc1, fixed 1.104.0rc2

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database