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SCA: security update for litellm (GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434563

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2024-8984)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434563

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8984

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8984