CVE-2024-10188: LiteLLM Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

March 20, 2025

A vulnerability in BerriAI/litellm, as of commit 26c03c9, allows unauthenticated users to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by exploiting the use of ast.literal_eval to parse user input. This function is not safe and is prone to DoS attacks, which can crash the litellm Python server.

References

github.com/BerriAI/litellm
github.com/advisories/GHSA-gw2q-qw9j-rgv7
github.com/berriai/litellm/commit/21156ff5d0d84a7dd93f951ca033275c77e4f73c
huntr.com/bounties/96a32812-213c-4819-ba4e-36143d35e95b
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10188

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