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LiteLLM: Privilege Escalation to Proxy Admin via Cross-Domain Reuse of the Salt Key

CVE-2026-114612

LiteLLM is a proxy server (AI Gateway) to call LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format. From 1.87.0 until 1.100.4, 1.101.3, 1.102.2, 1.103.1, and 1.104.0-rc.2, the proxy reuses one cryptographic context for at-rest secrets and session tokens, allowing an authenticated internal user to have crafted metadata containing a forged administrator credential encrypted and returned by the API-key flow. Replaying that ciphertext as a bearer token causes the proxy to trust the forged proxy administrator identity, permitting administrative access and arbitrary commands through the MCP stdio endpoint. Versions 1.87.0 through 1.90.x require EXPERIMENTAL_UI_LOGIN to be enabled, while versions after 1.91.0 are exploitable in the default configuration. This issue was fixed in LiteLLM 1.100.4, 1.101.3, 1.102.2, 1.103.1, and 1.104.0-rc.2.

Privilege Escalation No Active Exploit Signals
CVSS Base Score
9.9
CRITICAL
Exploitability:3.2
Impact Score:6.1
EPSS Probability:0.32%
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Attack Surface
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Authentication
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Weaponization
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SSVC Action
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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269 ↗CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management
CWE-345 ↗CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
CWE-441 ↗CWE-441: Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')

Affected Products & Versions

Vendor Product Affected Versions
BerriAI litellm >= 1.87.0, < 1.100.4 (affected), >= 1.101.0, < 1.101.3 (affected), >= 1.102.0, < 1.102.2 (affected), >= 1.103.0, < 1.103.1 (affected), >= 1.104.0-rc.1, < 1.104.0-rc.2 (affected)

References & Technical Advisories

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Threat Intelligence Signals

EPSS Score
0.319%
Vulnerability Class
Privilege Escalation

Identity & Timeline

StatusPUBLISHED
Assigning AuthorityGitHub, Inc. · Vendor · USA
Reserved2026-10-21T20:34:25
Published2026-10-22T18:01:52
Last Updated2026-10-30T18:17:34

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