berriai litellm Request /audio/transcriptions denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in berriai litellm. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /audio/transcriptions of the component Request Handler. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-4888. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in berriai litellm (affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file /audio/transcriptions of the component Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

BerriAI's litellm, in its latest version, is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to improper input validation on the `/audio/transcriptions` endpoint. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request that includes a file path to the server, which then deletes the specified file without proper authorization or validation. This vulnerability is present in the code where `os.remove(file.filename)` is used to delete a file, allowing any user to delete critical files on the server such as SSH keys, SQLite databases, or configuration files.

It is possible to read the advisory at huntr.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-4888 since 05/14/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• berriai

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• litellm

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