CVE-2026-12770 (GCVE-0-2026-12770)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-21 00:15 – Updated: 2026-06-22 18:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
BerriAI litellm Admin Key key_management_endpoints.py improper authorization
Summary
A vulnerability was determined in BerriAI litellm up to 1.63.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/key_management_endpoints.py of the component Admin Key Handler. This manipulation causes improper authorization. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. Patch name: 23781. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-22 17:55 UTC
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/vuln/372512 | vdb-entry |
| https://vuldb.com/vuln/372512/cti | signaturepermissions-required |
| https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-12770 | third-party-advisory |
| https://vuldb.com/submit/811279 | third-party-advisory |
| https://gist.github.com/YLChen-007/993c68152b2c77… | exploit |
| https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/pull/23781 | issue-trackingpatch |
| https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/ | product |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.