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CVE-2026-42271
8.8
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Descriptions
KEV: BerriAI LiteLLM contains a command injection vulnerability that could allow any authenticated user, including holders of low-privilege internal-user keys, to run arbitrary commands on the host.
NVD: 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.
Compliance SSVC + BOD 26-04
Research metadata
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42271
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
https://horizon3.ai/attack-research/vulnerabilities/cve-2026-42271-chained-with-cve-2026-48710/
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-LITELLM-16119122
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/09/litellm-vulnerability-under-active-attack-cisa-warns-cve-2026-42271/
QC notes
Hunting hypothesis agent
Hunt for POST requests to LiteLLM MCP preview endpoints with crafted stdio transport configs injecting OS commands through non-standard executable paths.
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