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

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Published by the source: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:33:33 +0530

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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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