CVE-2026-42271
CWE-77
97.7
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
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