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HIGHCVE-2026-42271Published Modified CNA GitHub_M

CVE-2026-42271: LiteLLM: Authenticated command execution via MCP stdio test endpoints

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.

Metrics

CVSS v4.0
8.7
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
Affected Products
1
Affected packages
  • BerriAI / litellm
    >= 1.74.2, < 1.83.7
CVSS Vector
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
CVE-2026-42271: LiteLLM: Authenticated command execution via MCP stdio test endpoints | HarborGuard CVE