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CVE-2026-42271

Is CVE-2026-42271 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

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public sources

Exploited in wild
Yes
CISA KEV · Jun 8, 2026
Public exploit
Metasploit +1
Metasploit/EDB/PoC
Base severity
8.8 High
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
91%
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
CWE-77
CWE

Confirmed exploited in the wild. Patch this first, regardless of the base score.

cisa ssvc

CISA Vulnrichment · assessed

Exploitation
Active
in the wild
Automatable
No
at scale
Technical impact
Total
on success

CISA decision, by how critical the affected system is to you:

  • low impact → Track
  • medium impact → Attend
  • high impact → Act

Track: normal patch cycle · Track*: watch closely · Attend: patch sooner · Act: patch now. About SSVC ↗

public exploits

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affected packages

GHSA-v4p8-mg3p-g94g · GitHub rates it high
  • PyPIlitellm
    Vulnerable
    ≥ 1.74.2, < 1.83.7
    Fixed in
    1.83.7

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), via OSV.dev. Check your lockfile version against the ranges above.

baseline read

auto · not a community verdict

Real — exploited in the wild

CISA confirms active exploitation. Treat scanner hits as true positives unless your specific version or config is unaffected.

Based on CISA KEV

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Affected:LitellmRedhat

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

LiteLLM is a proxy server (AI Gateway) to call LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format. From version 1.74.2 to before version 1.83.7, two endpoints used to preview an MCP server before saving it — POST /mcp-rest/test/connection and POST /mcp-rest/test/tools/list — accepted a full server configuration in the request body, including the command, args, and env fields used by the stdio transport. When called with a stdio configuration, the endpoints attempted to connect, which spawned the supplied command as a subprocess on the proxy host with the privileges of the proxy process. The endpoints were gated only by a valid proxy API key, with no role check. Any authenticated user — including holders of low-privilege internal-user keys — could therefore run arbitrary commands on the host. This issue has been patched in version 1.83.7.

Published · Added to CISA KEV (31 days after publication)

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timeline

  1. CISA SSVC assessment · exploitation: active
  2. Added to VulnCheck KEV · reported exploited in the wild
  3. Added to CISA KEV · confirmed exploited in the wild
  4. Published by NVD

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    Field note · TruePositive EditorialCurated

    This is confirmed exploited in the wild. It is in the CISA KEV catalog, so attackers are actively using it, not just researchers. Patch this on priority and confirm the fix holds.

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Same weakness: CWE-77.