Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines A- driven software development. Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, and Salesforce are only a handful of the entities whose access secrets were exposed.
The revelation was posted on Tuesday and Wednesday by security firms CloudSEK and Hudson Rock. CloudSEK said it found cloud keys, repository tokens, SSH keys, Kubernetes secrets, package publishing credentials, environment variables, and AlI provider keys that could allow attackers to gain access to more than 2,500 organizations.
The credentials were extracted during a 40-minute window in March while the victims used compromised versions of LiteLLM downloaded from the package’s official location in the Python Package Index repository. Hudson Rock said it made the discovery after analyzing a 195TB file that it obtained. Neither firm identified the source of the information.
Have you ever pressed F12? We technically weren’t allowed to see the config either, but LiteLLM literally returned a users password hash as part of the user data json in the version we were using. It was easy enough to see that it wasn’t salted.
Another fun thing it does is that any user can see their entire teams token spend trough the network tab, even if they technically shouldn’t be allowed to do that. Oh and LiteLLM had a CVSS score 9.9 vulnerability recently where any user with any sort of write privilege (including the “privilege” to change any of your own data, like your password) could just change their own role to admin 🤷
The pure incompetence of that software would be really funny if it wasn’t such a pain in the ass to be the person who has to convince coworkers to rotate compromised credentials…