CISA warns of active exploitation of LiteLLM command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-42271)
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Zeljka Zorz
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Summary
A critical command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-42271) in BerryAI's LiteLLM open-source AI gateway is under active exploitation by attackers. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. LiteLLM is widely used by developers and enterprises to unify access to multiple large language model APIs, making this vulnerability particularly impactful for organizations relying on AI infrastructure.
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the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed by adding the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Monday
LiteLLM is an open-source library that provides a unified interface for calling many different large language model APIs using a single (OpenAI) format
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