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Medium osv · GHSA-hx8v-g79f-8w5f

LiteLLM Proxy has server-side request forgery via the `user_config` request parameter

Published Sep 17, 2026 CVSS 4.0

Summary

A server-side request forgery in LiteLLM Proxy lets an authenticated caller redirect the proxy's outbound request to a host of their choosing by smuggling an api_base inside the user_config request body, bypassing the existing parameter guard.

Details

LiteLLM Proxy validates request bodies with is_request_body_safe, which blocks the api_base and base_url parameters but does not cover user_config. The user_config object is used to build the outbound router for a request, so a caller can place an api_base inside it and reach an arbitrary host. The guard only inspected the two top-level keys, so the same api_base nested inside user_config was never checked.

Exploitation requires a valid virtual key.

Impact

An authenticated caller can make the proxy issue server-side requests to internal or external hosts of their choosing, reaching endpoints the caller cannot otherwise access.

Affected / Patched

Affected: `

Affected AI Products

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