CVE-2024-8984 | Denial of Service (DoS) in berriai/litellm

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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.

Published: 2025-03-20 Last update: 2025-10-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-8984 is rated High Exploit Risk (70/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.64%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-8984

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-8984

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-30 0.40% 0.64% +0.24%
2 2026-04-29 0.54% 0.40% -0.14%
3 2026-04-28 — 0.54% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-8984

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 3.0 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 3.9 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-8984

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2024-8984

GHSA-fh2c-86xm-pm2x · Severity: high · Ecosystem: pip — LiteLLM Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via Crafted HTTP Request

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-8984

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
litellm litellm < 1.65.4 cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
litellm litellm 1.65.4 cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev2:*:*:*:*:*:*
litellm litellm 1.65.4 cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev6:*:*:*:*:*:*
litellm litellm 1.65.4 cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:dev8:*:*:*:*:*:*
litellm litellm 1.65.4 cpe:2.3:a:litellm:litellm:1.65.4:nightly:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2024-8984

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