CVE-2026-42208: LiteLLM SQL Injection Stealing AI Credentials
A critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-42208) in LiteLLM, a widely-used LLM proxy and SDK middleware, is being actively exploited to extract API keys, provider credentials, and configuration secrets from the proxy database. Exploitation began within 36 hours of public disclosure, with attackers demonstrating precise targeting of sensitive tables containing OpenAI, Anthropic, and Bedrock credentials. The stolen credentials could enable downstream attacks against AI infrastructure at scale, given LiteLLM's broad adoption across LLM application ecosystems.