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CVE-2026-42271

CWE-77

Critical

97.7

RPS

Description

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.

Source: NVD

Signals

CVSS
8.8
High · v3.1
EPSS
92.57%
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
CISA KEV
In CISA KEV since Jun 2026
Fix commit
No known fix commit
Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
Weakness
CWE-77
CWE-77, CWE-78
Published
8 May 2026
Last modified 15 Jul 2026

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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time

CVE-2026-42271 · RPS 97.7 · DevSecure Intelligence