56 comments

  • detente18 44 minutes ago
    LiteLLM maintainer here, this is still an evolving situation, but here's what we know so far:

    1. Looks like this originated from the trivvy used in our ci/cd - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3ABerriAI%2Flitellm%20trivy... https://ramimac.me/trivy-teampcp/#phase-09

    2. If you're on the proxy docker, you were not impacted. We pin our versions in the requirements.txt

    3. The package is in quarantine on pypi - this blocks all downloads.

    We are investigating the issue, and seeing how we can harden things. I'm sorry for this.

    - Krrish

    • bognition 1 minute ago
      The decision to block all downloads is pretty disruptive, especially for people on pinned known good versions. Its breaking a bunch of my systems that are all launched with `uv run`
    • redrove 41 minutes ago
      >1. Looks like this originated from the trivvy used in our ci/cd

      Were you not aware of this in the short time frame that it happened in? How come credentials were not rotated to mitigate the trivy compromise?

    • outside2344 35 minutes ago
      Is it just in 1.82.8 or are previous versions impacted?
      • Imustaskforhelp 34 minutes ago
        1.82.7 is also impacted if I remember correctly.
    • Imustaskforhelp 39 minutes ago
      > - Krrish

      Was your account completely compromised? (Judging from the commit made by TeamPCP on your accounts)

      Are you in contacts with all the projects which use litellm downstream and if they are safe or not (I am assuming not)

      I am unable to understand how it compromised your account itself from the exploit at trivvy being used in CI/CD as well.

      • redrove 30 minutes ago
        >I am unable to understand how it compromised your account itself from the exploit at trivvy being used in CI/CD as well.

        Token in CI could've been way too broad.

  • jFriedensreich 48 minutes ago
    We just can't trust dependencies and dev setups. I wanted to say "anymore" but we never could. Dev containers were never good enough, too clumsy and too little isolation. We need to start working in full sandboxes with defence in depth that have real guardrails and UIs like vm isolation + container primitives and allow lists, egress filters, seccomp, gvisor and more but with much better usability. Its the same requirements we have for agent runtimes, lets use this momentum to make our dev environments safer! In such an environment the container would crash, we see the violations, delete it and dont' have to worry about it. We should treat this as an everyday possibility not as an isolated security incident.
    • dotancohen 2 minutes ago

        > We just can't trust dependencies and dev setups.
      
      
      In one of my vibe coded personal projects (Python and Rust project) I'm actually getting rid of most dependencies and vibe coding replacements that do just what I need. I think that we'll see far fewer dependencies in future projects.

      Also, I typically only update dependencies when either an exploit is known in the current version or I need a feature present in a later version - and even then not to the absolute latest version if possible. I do this for all my projects under the many eyes principal. Finding exploits takes time, new updates are riskier than slightly-stale versions.

      Though, if I'm filing a bug with a project, I do test and file against the latest version.

    • uyzstvqs 2 minutes ago
      That's no solution. If you can't trust and/or verify dependencies, and they are malicious, then you have bigger problems than what a sandbox will protect against. Even if it's sandboxed and your host machine is safe, you're presumably still going to use that malicious code in production.
    • cedws 26 minutes ago
      This is the security shortcuts of the past 50 years coming back to bite us. Software has historically been a world where we all just trust each other. I think that’s coming to an end very soon. We need sandboxing for sure, but it’s much bigger than that. Entire security models need to be rethought.
      • 1313ed01 8 minutes ago
        This assumes that we can get a locked down, secure, stable bedrock system and sandbox that basically never changes except for tiny security updates that can be carefully inspected by many independent parties.

        Which sounds great, but the way things work now tend to be the exact opposite of that, so there will be no trustable platform to run the untrusted code in. If the sandbox, or the operating system the sandbox runs in, will get breaking changes and force everyone to always be on a recent release (or worse, track main branch) then that will still be a huge supply chain risk in itself.

    • kalib_tweli 44 minutes ago
      Would value your opinion on my project to isolate creds from the container:

      https://github.com/calebfaruki/tightbeam https://github.com/calebfaruki/airlock

      This is literally the thing I'm trying to protect against.

    • amelius 35 minutes ago
      We need programming languages where every imported module is in its own sandbox by default.
      • jFriedensreich 25 minutes ago
        We have one where thats possible: workerd (apache 2.0) no new language needed just a new runtime
    • binsquare 37 minutes ago
      So... I'm working on an open source technology to make a literal virtual machine shippable i.e. freezing everything inside it, isolated due to vm/hypervisor for sandboxing, with support for containers too since it's a real linux vm.

      The problems you mentioned resonated a lot with me and why I'm building it, any interest in working to solve that together?: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

      • Bengalilol 19 minutes ago
        Probably on the side of your project, but did you try SmolBSD? <https://smolbsd.org> It's a meta-OS for microVMs that boots in 10–15 ms.

        It can be dedicated to a single service (or a full OS), runs a real BSD kernel, and provides strong isolation.

        Overall, it fits into the "VM is the new container" vision.

        Disclaimer: I'm following iMil through his twitch streams (the developer of smolBSD and a contributor to NetBSD) and I truly love what he his doing. I haven't actually used smolBSD in production myself since I don't have a need for it (but I participated in his live streams by installing and running his previews), and my answer might be somewhat off-topic.

        More here <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=smolbsd>

      • vladvasiliu 26 minutes ago
        What would the advantage of this be compared to using something like a Firecracker backend for containerd?
    • wswin 32 minutes ago
      Containers prevent this kind of info stealing greatly, only explicitly provided creds would be leaked.
      • jFriedensreich 26 minutes ago
        Containers can mean many things, if you mean plain docker default configured containers then no, they are a packaging mechanism not safe environment by themselves.
        • wswin 23 minutes ago
          They don't have access to the host filesystem nor environment variables and this attack wouldn't work.
  • f311a 24 minutes ago
    Their previous release would be easily caught by static analysis. PTH is a novel technique.

    Run all your new dependencies through static analysis and don't install the latest versions.

    I implemented static analysis for Python that detects close to 90% of such injections.

    https://github.com/rushter/hexora

  • ramimac 1 hour ago
    This is tied to the TeamPCP activity over the last few weeks. I've been responding, and keeping an up to date timeline. I hope it might help folks catch up and contextualize this incident:

    https://ramimac.me/trivy-teampcp/#phase-09

  • intothemild 1 hour ago
    I just installed Harbor, and it instantly pegged my cpu.. i was lucky to see my processes before the system hard locked.

    Basically it forkbombed `grep -r rpcuser\rpcpassword` processes trying to find cryptowallets or something. I saw that they spawned from harness, and killed it.

    Got lucky, no backdoor installed here from what i could make out of the binary

    • abhikul0 19 minutes ago
      Same experience with browser-use, it installs litellm as a dependency. Rebooted mac as nothing was responding; luckily only github and huggingface tokens were saved in .git-credentials and have invalidated them. This was inside a conda env, should I reinstall my os for any potential backdoors?
    • hmokiguess 47 minutes ago
      What is Harness?
      • intothemild 34 minutes ago
        Sorry i mean Harbor.. was running terminal bench
  • hiciu 1 hour ago
    Besides main issue here, and the owners account being possibly compromised as well, there's like 170+ low quality spam comments in there.

    I would expect better spam detection system from GitHub. This is hardly acceptable.

    • orf 1 hour ago
      i'm guessing it's accounts they have compromised with the stealer.
      • ebonnafoux 35 minutes ago
        They repeat only six sentences during 100+ comments:

        Worked like a charm, much appreciated.

        This was the answer I was looking for.

        Thanks, that helped!

        Thanks for the tip!

        Great explanation, thanks for sharing.

        This was the answer I was looking for.

        • dec0dedab0de 12 minutes ago
          Over the last ~15 years I have been shocked by the amount of spam on social networks that could have been caught with a Bayesian filter. Or in this case, a fairly simple regex.
          • Imustaskforhelp 9 minutes ago
            Well, large companies/corporations don't care about Spam because they actually benefit from spam in a way as it boosts their engagement ratio

            It just doesn't have to be spammed enough that advertisers leave the platform and I think that they sort of succeed in doing so.

            Think about it, if Facebook shows you AI slop ragebait or any rage-inducing comment from multiple bots designed to farm attention/for malicious purposes in general, and you fall for it and show engagement to it on which it can show you ads, do you think it has incentive to take a stance against such form of spam

            • dec0dedab0de 5 minutes ago
              Yeah, I almost included that part in my comment, but it still sucks.
  • mark_l_watson 8 minutes ago
    A question from a non-python-security-expert: is committing uv.lock files for specific versions, and only infrequently updating versions a reasonable practice?
    • Imustaskforhelp 2 minutes ago
      (I am not a security expert either)

      But, one of the arguments that I saw online from this was that when a security researcher finds a bug and reports it to the OSS project/Company they then fix the code silently and include it within the new version and after some time, they make the information public

      So if you run infrequently updated versions, then you run a risk of allowing hackers access as well.

      (An good example I can think of is OpenCode which had an issue which could allow RCE and the security researcher team asked Opencode secretly but no response came so after sometime of no response, they released the knowledge in public and Opencode quickly made a patch to fix that issue but if you were running the older code, you would've been vulnerable to RCE)

  • rdevilla 1 hour ago
    It will only take one agent-led compromise to get some Claude-authored underhanded C into llvm or linux or something and then we will all finally need to reflect on trusting trust at last and forevermore.
    • vlovich123 43 minutes ago
      Reflect in what way? The primary focus of that talk is that it’s possible to infect the binary of a compiler in a way that source analysis won’t reveal and the binary self replicates the vulnerability into other binaries it generates. Thankfully that particular problem was “solved” a while back [1] even if not yet implemented widely.

      However, the broader idea of supply chain attacks remains challenging and AI doesn’t really matter in terms of how you should treat it. For example, the xz-utils back door in the build system to attack OpenSSH on many popular distros that patched it to depend on systemd predates AI and that’s just the attack we know about because it was caught. Maybe AI helps with scale of such attacks but I haven’t heard anyone propose any kind of solution that would actually improve reliability and robustness of everything.

      [1] Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.5534

    • cozzyd 54 minutes ago
      The only way to be safe is to constantly change internal API's so that LLM's are useless at kernel code
      • thr0w4w4y1337 42 minutes ago
        To slightly rephrase a citation from Demobbed (2000) [1]:

        The kernel is not just open source, it's a very fast-moving codebase. That's how we win all wars against AI-authored exploits. While the LLM trains on our internal APIs, we change the APIs — by hand. When the agent finally submits its pull request, it gets lost in unfamiliar header files and falls into a state of complete non-compilability. That is the point. That is our strategy.

        1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demobbed_(2000_film)

    • Imustaskforhelp 1 hour ago
      If that would happen, The worry I would have is of all the sensitive Government servers from all over the world which might be then exploited and the amount of damage which can be caused silently by such a threat actor or something like AWS/GCP/these massive hyperscalers which are also used by the governments around the globe at times.

      The possibilities within a good threat could be catastrophic if we assume so, and if we assume nation-states to be interested in sponsoring hacking attacks (which many nations already do) to attack enemy nations/gain leverage. We are looking at damage within Trillions at that point.

      But I would assume that Linux might be safe for now, it might be the most looked at code and its definitely something safe.

      LLVM might be a bit more interesting as it might go a little unnoticed but hopefully people who are working at LLVM are well funded/have enough funding to take a look at everything carefully to not have such a slip up.

    • MuteXR 1 hour ago
      You know that people can already write backdoored code, right?
      • dec0dedab0de 10 minutes ago
        Yeah, and they can write code with vulnerabilities by accident. But this is a new class of problem, where a known trusted contributor can accidentally allow a vulnerability that was added on purpose by the tooling.
      • ipython 59 minutes ago
        But now you have compromise _at scale_. Before poor plebs like us had to artisinally craft every back door. Now we have a technology to automate that mundane exploitation process! Win!
        • MuteXR 55 minutes ago
          You still have a human who actually ends up reviewing the code, though. Now if the review was AI powered... (glances at openclaw)
  • shay_ker 1 hour ago
    A general question - how do frontier AI companies handle scenarios like this in their training data? If they train their models naively, then training data injection seems very possible and could make models silently pwn people.

    Do the labs label code versions with an associated CVE to label them as compromised (telling the model what NOT to do)? Do they do adversarial RL environments to teach what's good/bad? I'm very curious since it's inevitable some pwned code ends up as training data no matter what.

    • tomaskafka 57 minutes ago
      Everyone’s (well, except Anthropic, they seem to have preserved a bit of taste) approach is the more data the better, so the databases of stolen content (erm, models) are memorizing crap.
    • datadrivenangel 48 minutes ago
      This was a compromise of the library owners github acccounts apparently, so this is not a related scenario to dangerous code in the training data.

      I assume most labs don't do anything to deal with this, and just hope that it gets trained out because better code should be better rewarded in theory?

    • Imustaskforhelp 58 minutes ago
      I am pretty sure that such measures aren't taken by AI companies, though I may be wrong.
      • alansaber 53 minutes ago
        The API/online model inference definitely runs through some kind of edge safeguarding models which could do this.
  • bratao 1 hour ago
    Look like the Founder and CTO account has been compromised. https://github.com/krrishdholakia
    • jadamson 1 hour ago
      Most his recent commits are small edits claiming responsibility on behalf of "teampcp", which was the group behind the recent Trivy compromise:

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475888

      • soco 1 hour ago
        I was just wondering why the Trivy compromise hit only npm packages, thinking that bigger stuff should appear sooner or later. Here we go...
    • franktankbank 1 hour ago
      Or his company is trash and hes moved onto plain old theft.
  • segalord 9 minutes ago
    LiteLLM has like a 1000 dependencies this is expected https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/main/requirements.tx...
  • santiagobasulto 19 minutes ago
    I blogged about this last year[0]...

    > ### Software Supply Chain is a Pain in the A*

    > On top of that, the room for vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks has increased dramatically

    AI Is not about fancy models, is about plain old Software Engineering. I strongly advised our team of "not-so-senior" devs to not use LiteLLM or LangChain or anything like that and just stick to `requests.post('...')".

    [0] https://sb.thoughts.ar/posts/2025/12/03/ai-is-all-about-soft...

    • eoskx 15 minutes ago
      Valid, but for all the crap that LangChain gets it at least has its own layer for upstream LLM provider calls, which means it isn't affected by this supply chain compromise (unless you're using the optional langchain-litellm package). DSPy uses LiteLLM as its primary way to call OpenAI, etc. and CrewAI imports it, too, but I believe it prefers the vendor libraries directly before it falls back to LiteLLM.
  • eoskx 59 minutes ago
    This is bad, especially from a downstream dependency perspective. DSPy and CrewAI also import LiteLLM, so you could not be using LiteLLM as a gateway, but still importing it via those libraries for agents, etc.
    • nickvec 56 minutes ago
      Wow, the postmortem for this is going to be brutal. I wonder just how many people/orgs have been affected.
      • eoskx 54 minutes ago
        Yep, I think the worst impact is going to be from libraries that were using LiteLLM as just an upstream LLM provider library vs for a model gateway. Hopefully, CrewAI and DSPy can get on top of it soon.
    • benatkin 28 minutes ago
      I'm surprised to see nanobot uses LiteLLM: https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot

      LiteLLM wouldn't be my top choice, because it installs a lot of extra stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43646438 But it's quite popular.

  • nickvec 1 hour ago
    Looks like all of the LiteLLM CEO’s public repos have been updated with the description “teampcp owns BerriAI” https://github.com/krrishdholakia
  • cedws 39 minutes ago
    This looks like the same TeamPCP that compromised Trivy. Notice how the issue is full of bot replies. It was the same in Trivy’s case.

    This threat actor seems to be very quickly capitalising on stolen credentials, wouldn’t be surprised if they’re leveraging LLMs to do the bulk of the work.

  • cpburns2009 1 hour ago
  • sschueller 1 hour ago
    Does anyone know a good alternate project that works similarly (share multipple LLMs across a set of users)? LiteLLM has been getting worse and trying to get me to upgrade to a paid version. I also had issues with creating tokens for other users etc.
    • sschueller 47 minutes ago
      I just found https://github.com/jasmedia/InferXgate which looks interesting although quite new and not supporting so many providers.
    • redrove 45 minutes ago
      Bifrost is the only real alternative I'm aware of https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost
      • sschueller 5 minutes ago
        Virtual Keys is an Enterprise feature. I am not going to pay for something like this in order to provide my family access to all my models. I can do without cost control (although it would be nice) but I need for users to be able to generate a key and us this key to access all the models I provide.
    • river_otter 1 hour ago
      github.com/mozilla-ai/any-llm :)
    • tacoooooooo 1 hour ago
      pydantic-ai
  • tom-blk 15 minutes ago
    Stuff like is happening too much recently. Seems like the more fast paced areas of development would benefit from a paradigm shift
  • mohsen1 45 minutes ago
    If it was not spinning so many Python processes and not overwhelming the system with those (friends found out this is consuming too much CPU from the fan noise!) it would have been much more successful. So similar to xz attack

    it does a lot of CPU intensive work

        spawn background python
        decode embedded stage
        run inner collector
        if data collected:
            write attacker public key
            generate random AES key
            encrypt stolen data with AES
            encrypt AES key with attacker RSA pubkey
            tar both encrypted files
            POST archive to remote host
    • franktankbank 33 minutes ago
      I can't tell which part of that is expensive unless many multiples of python are spawned at the same time. Are any of the payloads particularly large?
  • postalcoder 1 hour ago
    This is a brutal one. A ton of people use litellm as their gateway.
    • eoskx 53 minutes ago
      Not just as a gateway in a lot cases, but CrewAI and DSPy use it directly. DSPy uses it as its only way to call upstream LLM providers and CrewAI falls back to it if the OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. SDKs aren't available.
    • Imustaskforhelp 1 hour ago
      Do you feel as if people will update litellm without looking at this discussion/maybe having it be automatic which would then lead to loss of crypto wallets/ especially AI Api keys?

      Now I am not worried about the Ai Api keys having much damage but I am thinking of one step further and I am not sure how many of these corporations follow privacy policy and so perhaps someone more experienced can tell me but wouldn't these applications keep logs for legal purposes and those logs can contain sensitive information, both of businesses but also, private individuals perhaps too?

      • daveguy 1 hour ago
        Maybe then people will start to realize crypto isn't even worth the stored bits.

        Irrevocable transfers... What could go wrong?

  • kevml 1 hour ago
  • wswin 28 minutes ago
    I will wait with updating anything until this whole trivy case gets cleaned up.
  • tom_alexander 49 minutes ago
    Only tangentially related: Is there some joke/meme I'm not aware of? The github comment thread is flooded with identical comments like "Thanks, that helped!", "Thanks for the tip!", and "This was the answer I was looking for."

    Since they all seem positive, it doesn't seem like an attack but I thought the general etiquette for github issues was to use the emoji reactions to show support so the comment thread only contains substantive comments.

    • incognito124 48 minutes ago
      In the thread:

      > It also seems that attacker is trying to stifle the discussion by spamming this with hundreds of comments. I recommend talking on hackernews if that might be the case.

    • vultour 44 minutes ago
      These have been popping up on all the TeamPCP compromises lately
    • nickvec 48 minutes ago
      Ton of compromised accounts spamming the GH thread to prevent any substantive conversation from being had.
      • tom_alexander 40 minutes ago
        Oh wow. That's a lot of compromised accounts. Guess I was wrong about it not being an attack.
    • jbkkd 47 minutes ago
      Those are all bots commenting, and now exposing themselves as such.
    • Imustaskforhelp 45 minutes ago
      Bots to flood the discussion to prevent any actual conversation.
  • 0fflineuser 1 hour ago
    I was running it (as a proxy) in my homelab with docker compose using the litellm/litellm:latest image https://hub.docker.com/layers/litellm/litellm/latest/images/... , I don't think this was compromised as it is from 6 months ago and I checked it is the version 1.77.

    I guess I am lucky as I have watchtower automatically update all my containers to the latest image every morning if there are new versions.

    I also just added it to my homelab this sunday, I guess that's good timing haha.

  • rgambee 1 hour ago
    Looking forward to a Veritasium video about this in the future, like the one they recently did about the xz backdoor.
    • stavros 39 minutes ago
      That was massively more interesting, this is just a straight-up hack.
  • xunairah 53 minutes ago
    Version 1.82.7 is also compromised. It doesn't have the pth file, but the payload is still in proxy/proxy_server.py.
  • xinayder 1 hour ago
    When something like this happens, do security researchers instantly contact the hosting companies to suspend or block the domains used by the attackers?
    • redrove 49 minutes ago
      First line of defense is the git host and artifact host scrape the malware clean (in this case GitHub and Pypi).

      Domains might get added to a list for things like 1.1.1.2 but as you can imagine that has much smaller coverage, not everyone uses something like this in their DNS infra.

  • kstenerud 1 hour ago
    We need real sandboxing. Out-of-process sandboxing, not in-process. The attacks are only going to get worse.

    That's why I'm building https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai

  • 6thbit 1 hour ago
    title is bit misleading.

    The package was directly compromised, not “by supply chain attack”.

    If you use the compromised package, your supply chain is compromised.

  • oncelearner 1 hour ago
    That's a bad supply-chain attack, many folks use litellm as main gateway
    • rdevilla 1 hour ago
      laughs smugly in vimscript
  • dec0dedab0de 1 hour ago
    github, pypi, npm, homebrew, cpan, etc etc. should adopt a multi-multi-factor authentication approach for releases. Maybe have it kick in as a requirement after X amount of monthly downloads.

    Basically, have all releases require multi-factor auth from more than one person before they go live.

    A single person being compromised either technically, or by being hit on the head with a wrench, should not be able to release something malicious that effects so many people.

    • worksonmine 51 minutes ago
      And how would that work for single maintainer projects?
      • dec0dedab0de 28 minutes ago
        They would have to find someone else if they grew too big.

        Though, the secondary doesn't necessarily have to be a maintainer or even a contributor on the project. It just needs to be someone else to do a sanity check, to make sure it is an actual release.

        Heck, I would even say that as the project grows in popularity, the amount of people required to approve a release should go up.

        • worksonmine 12 minutes ago
          So if I'm developing something I want to use and the community finds it useful but I take no contributions and no feature requests I should have to find another person to deal with?

          How do I even know who to trust, and what prevents two people from conspiring together with a long con? Sounds great on the surface but I'm not sure you've thought it through.

  • 6thbit 1 hour ago
    Worth exploring safeguard for some: The automatic import can be suppressed using Python interpreter’s -S option.

    This would also disable site import so not viable generically for everyone without testing.

    • cpburns2009 28 minutes ago
      The 1.82.7 exploit was executed on import. The 1.82.8 exploit used a pth file which is run at start up (module discovery basically).
  • nickspacek 1 hour ago
    teampcp taking credit?

    https://github.com/krrishdholakia/blockchain/commit/556f2db3...

      - # blockchain
      - Implements a skeleton framework of how to mine using blockchain, including the consensus algorithms.
      + teampcp owns BerriAI
  • gkfasdfasdf 1 hour ago
    Someone needs to go to prison for this.
  • fratellobigio 1 hour ago
    It's been quarantined on PyPI
  • mikert89 1 hour ago
    Wow this is in a lot of software
    • eoskx 56 minutes ago
      Yep, DSPy and CrewAI have direct dependencies on it. DSPy uses it as its primary library for calling upstream LLM providers and CrewAI falls back to it I believe if the OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. SDKs aren't available.
  • danielvaughn 38 minutes ago
    I work with security researchers, so we've been on this since about an hour ago. One pain I've really come to feel is the complexity of Python environments. They've always been a pain, but in an incident like this, where you need to find whether an exact version of a package has ever been installed on your machine. All I can say is good luck.

    The Python ecosystem provides too many nooks and crannies for malware to hide in.

  • Imustaskforhelp 1 hour ago
    Our modern economy/software industry truly runs on egg-shells nowadays that engineers accounts are getting hacked to create a supply-chain attack all at the same time that threat actors are getting more advanced partially due to helps of LLM's.

    First Trivy (which got compromised twice), now LiteLLM.

  • zhisme 34 minutes ago
    Am I the only one having feeling that with LLM-era we have now bigger amount of malicious software lets say parsers/fetchers of credentials/ssh/private keys? And it is easier to produce them and then include in some 3rd party open-source software? Or it is just our attention gets focused on such things?
  • Blackthorn 39 minutes ago
    Edit: ignore this silliness, as it sidesteps the real problem. Leaving it here because we shouldn't remove our own stupidity.

    It's pretty disappointing that safetensors has existed for multiple years now but people are still distributing pth files. Yes it requires more code to handle the loading and saving of models, but you'd think it would be worth it to avoid situations like this.

    • cpburns2009 32 minutes ago
      safetensors is just as vulnerable to this sort of exploit using a pth file since it's a Python package.
      • Blackthorn 28 minutes ago
        Yeah, fair enough, the problem here is that the credentials were stolen, the fact that the exploit was packaged into a .pth is just an implementation detail.
  • 0123456789ABCDE 1 hour ago
    airflow, dagster, dspy, unsloth.ai, polar
  • iwhalen 1 hour ago
    What is happening in this issue thread? Why are there 100+ satisfied slop comments?
  • cpburns2009 1 hour ago
    LiteLLM is now in quarantine on PyPI [1]. Looks like burning a recovery token was worth it.

    [1]: https://pypi.org/project/litellm/

  • te_chris 36 minutes ago
    I reviewed the LiteLLM source a while back. Without wanting to be mean, it was a mess. Steered well clear.
    • rnjs 3 minutes ago
      Terrible code quality and terrible docs
  • otabdeveloper4 1 hour ago
    LiteLLM is the second worst software project known to man. (First is LangChain. Third is OpenClaw.)

    I'm sensing a pattern here, hmm.

    • nickvec 1 hour ago
      Not familiar with LangChain besides at a surface level - what makes it the worst software project known to man?
      • eoskx 57 minutes ago
        LangChain at least has its own layer for upstream LLM provider calls, which means it isn't affected by this supply chain compromise. DSPy uses LiteLLM as its primary way to call OpenAI, etc. and CrewAI imports it, too, but I believe it prefers the vendor libraries directly before it falls back to LiteLLM.
  • deep_noz 1 hour ago
    good i was too lazy to bump versions
    • jadamson 1 hour ago
      In case you missed it, according to the OP, the previous point release (1.82.7) is also compromised.
      • dot_treo 1 hour ago
        Yeah, that release has the base64 blob, but it didn't contain the pth file that auto triggers the malware on import.
        • jadamson 1 hour ago
          The latest version with the the pth file doesn't require an import to trigger the exploit (just having the package installed is enough thanks to [1]).

          The previous version triggers on `import litellm.proxy`

          Again, all according to the issue OP.

          [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/site.html

  • TZubiri 1 hour ago
    Thank you for posting this, interesting.

    I hope that everyone's course of action will be uninstalling this package permanently, and avoiding the installation of packages similar to this.

    In order to reduce supply chain risk not only does a vendor (even if gratis and OS) need to be evaluated, but the advantage it provides.

    Exposing yourself to supply chain risk for an HTTP server dependency is natural. But exposing yourself for is-odd, or whatever this is, is not worth it.

    Remember that you are programmers and you can just program, you don't need a framework, you are already using the API of an LLM provider, don't put a hat on a hat, don't get killed for nothing.

    And even if you weren't using this specific dependency, check your deps, you might have shit like this in your requirements.txt and was merely saved by chance.

    An additional note is that the dev will probably post a post-mortem, what was learned, how it was fixed, maybe downplay the thing. Ignore that, the only reasonable step after this is closing a repo, but there's no incentive to do that.

    • xinayder 1 hour ago
      > Remember that you are programmers and you can just program, you don't need a framework, you are already using the API of an LLM provider, don't put a hat on a hat, don't get killed for nothing.

      Programming for different LLM APIs is a hassle, this library made it easy by making one single API you call, and in the backstage it handled all the different API calls you need for different LLM providers.

      • otabdeveloper4 1 hour ago
        There's only two different LLM APIs in practice (Anthropic and everyone else), and the differences are cosmetic.

        This is like a couple hours of work even without vibe coding tools.

    • circularfoyers 1 hour ago
      Comparing this project to is-odd seems very disingenuous to me. My understanding is this was the only way you could use llama.cpp with Claude Code for example, since llama.cpp doesn't support the Anthropic compatible endpoint and doing so yourself isn't anywhere near as trivial as your comparison. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
  • chillfox 1 hour ago
    Now I feel lucky that I switched to just using OpenRouter a year ago because LiteLLM was incredible flaky and kept causing outages.
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  • hmokiguess 30 minutes ago
    What’s the best way to identify a compromised machine? Check uv, conda, pip, venv, etc across the filesystem? Any handy script around?
    • persedes 25 minutes ago
      there's probably a more precise way, but if you're on uv:

        rg litellm  --iglob='*.lock'