Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline

The Hacker News · Saturday, 24 October 2026 at 11:03 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package.

"On May 27, 2026, a configuration file was committed to the public LiteLLM-Labs/lite-harness repository which inadvertently contained the master key to a deployment of

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