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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVE-2024-8984

High
7.5/10

Summary

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in litellm. 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. This issue affects litellm version prior to 1.56.2.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published