SCA: security update for litellm (GHSA-72m8-9m7m-h278)

low Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445186

Description

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

- LiteLLM is a proxy server (AI Gateway) to call LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format. Prior to
1.82.0-stable, LiteLLM's Custom Code Guardrails production create and update paths did not apply the same
sandboxing and validation used by the test endpoint, allowing a privileged user with access to create or
update guardrails to submit custom Python code that executed in the LiteLLM proxy environment and could
expose secrets available to the process. This issue is fixed in version 1.82.0-stable. (CVE-2026-59821)

Solution

Update the litellm library and its related packages to version 1.82.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 445186

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/23/2026

Updated: 7/23/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-59821

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Threat Score: 0.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59821

cwe: CWE-94

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