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CVE-2024-10188: Denial of Service in BerriAI/litellm

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

A vulnerability in BerriAI/litellm, as of commit 26c03c9, allows unauthenticated users to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by exploiting the use of ast.literal_eval to parse user input. This function is not safe and is prone to DoS attacks, which can crash the litellm Python server.

Affected products

• BerriAI litellm: before 1.53.1 — fixed in 1.53.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: BerriAI litellm 1.53.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/berriai/litellm/commit/21156ff5d0d84a7dd93f951ca033275c77e4f73c
• https://huntr.com/bounties/96a32812-213c-4819-ba4e-36143d35e95b

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