Resource Exhaustion Affecting litellm package, versions <1.96.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-LITELLM-18741322
  • published13 Aug 2026
  • disclosed7 Aug 2026

Introduced: 7 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-71870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard litellm to version 1.96.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream litellm package and not the litellm package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.15.0, a crafted PDF can cause large memory consumption when pypdf/_cmap.py function parse_bfrange parses unusually large source-code or destination-string tokens in a font /ToUnicode CMap during text extraction. This issue is fixed in 6.15.0.