What is CVE-2024-8984?

CVE-2024-8984 is a high-severity vulnerability in Berriai Berriai/litellm, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-03-20.

How severe is CVE-2024-8984?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Berriai Berriai/litellm

CVE-2024-8984

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.

EPSS: 0.008 (52.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Berriai Berriai/litellm — versions unspecified
Litellm — versions 1.65.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security@huntr.dev (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
security@huntr.dev

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8984?: CVE-2024-8984 is a high-severity vulnerability in Berriai Berriai/litellm, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-03-20.
How severe is CVE-2024-8984?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.