people · May 20, 2026
CVE-2026-42208 Pre-Authentication SQL Injection Hits LiteLLM Proxy
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Bishop Fox researchers confirmed CVE-2026-42208 a critical pre-authentication SQL injection in BerriAI LiteLLM proxy versions 1.81.16 through 1.83.6 on May 6 2026. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit a missing parameter binding in _enrich_failure_metadata_with_key_info by sending a crafted Authorization header to extract database data including virtual keys and credentials. Exploitation occurred in the wild within 36 hours of the April 25 2026 GitHub advisory with the fix released in version 1.83.7 on April 18 2026. Sysdig telemetry recorded the first observed exploitation 36 hours after disclosure according to Bishop Fox analysis.