CVE-2026-42271

high · 8.7Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2026-06-08Remediation due 2026-06-22

A public exploit / detection template exists

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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.

8.7

CVSS

83.6%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

100th

EPSS percentile

2026-05-08

Published

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Weaknesses

CWE-77CWE-78

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
litellm	litellm	>= 1.74.2, < 1.83.7
redhat	openshift_ai	>= 2.25, < 2.25.8
redhat	openshift_ai	>= 3.3, < 3.3.4
redhat	openshift_ai	3.4

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References

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