CVE-2024-5751: berriai berriai/litellm Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-5751 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Code Injection vulnerability in berriai berriai/litellm. EPSS estimates a 0.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 27-06-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 15-10-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

BerriAI/litellm version v1.35.8 contains a vulnerability where an attacker can achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability exists in the `add_deployment` function, which decodes and decrypts environment variables from base64 and assigns them to `os.environ`. An attacker can exploit this by sending a malicious payload to the `/config/update` endpoint, which is then processed and executed by the server when the `get_secret` function is triggered. This requires the server to use Google KMS and a database to store a model.

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.