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CVE-2024-8984

Denial of Service (DoS) in berriai/litellm

Published: Mar 20, 2025Updated: Oct 15, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-770
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
0.8%
Top 48.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
1 Known
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in berriai/litellm version v1.44.5. This vulnerability can be exploited by appending characters, such as dashes (-), to the end of a multipart boundary in an HTTP request. The server continuously processes each character, leading to excessive resource consumption and rendering the service unavailable. The issue is unauthenticated and does not require any user interaction, impacting all users of the service.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-770NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

litellmlitellm
Mixed
AI / ML / llm-serving-inference
berriai/litellmberriai
SaaS
AI / ML / llm-serving-inference
litellmPyPIOSS Libraries
litellmoss-projectAI / ML
berriaicommercialAI / MLaka litellm, berriai/litellm
pypipackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

https://github.com/berriai/litellm/commit/4f49f836aa844ac9b6bfbeff27e6f6b2b9cf3f61
github.com
https://huntr.com/bounties/554fc76b-3097-4223-b4cf-110b853e9355
huntr.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8984
nvd.nist.gov
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Timeline

Published
Mar 20, 2025
Last Updated
Oct 15, 2025

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