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MEDIUM

CVE-2026-12797

CVE-2026-12797 — BerriAI litellm Completions banned_keywords.py async_pre_call_hook authorization

A security flaw has been discovered in BerriAI litellm up to 1.82.5. Affected is the function async_pre_call_hook of the file enterprise/enterprise_hooks/banned_keywords.py of the component Completions Interface. The manipulation of the argument prompt results in incorrect authorization. The attack may be performed from remote. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, VulDB

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

0%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

berriai

litellm

CVSS base

6.3

MEDIUM

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

PoC

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

berriai

Products (1)

litellm

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
6.3CVSS 3.1MEDIUM——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-863
  • CWE-285

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1574.010Hijack Execution Flow: ServicesFile Permissions Weakness
  • T1083File and Directory Discovery
  • T1562.003Impair Defenses: Impair Command History Logging

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not rules we have tested.

  • Search application, proxy, and WAF logs for requests touching /enterprise_hooks/banned_keywords.py.

References

5 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • berriaievery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-863other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.