CVE-2026-59822: LiteLLM: MCP Authentication Bypass via OAuth2 Passthrough Fallback
LiteLLM’s MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint could allow an unauthenticated attacker to establish an authenticated MCP session using an arbitrary Bearer token.
The MCP auth handler supported OAuth2 passthrough for upstream MCP servers, but the fallback path could replace failed LiteLLM key validation with an empty UserAPIKeyAuth() object. This allowed requests with a fabricated Authorization header to reach MCP tooling without a valid LiteLLM key.
An attacker could use this to list and call configured MCP tools and access connected services exposed through MCP.
References
- github.com/BerriAI/litellm/commit/73869f0faf7d11ee21adcb5f91b8c33a340b6c2c
- github.com/BerriAI/litellm/pull/26463
- github.com/BerriAI/litellm/releases/tag/v1.84.0
- github.com/BerriAI/litellm/security/advisories/GHSA-7488-6r32-c95q
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-7488-6r32-c95q
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59822
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