High severity · published Mar 20, 2025
CVE-2024-8984
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in berriai/litellm version v1.44.5
7.5
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Litellm · Litellm
before 1.65.4; 1.65.4; 1.65.4; 1.65.4; 1.65.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8984
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8984
github.com
https://github.com/berriai/litellm/commit/4f49f836aa844ac9b6bfbeff27e6f6b2b9cf3f61
Exploit
https://huntr.com/bounties/554fc76b-3097-4223-b4cf-110b853e9355
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