Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline
Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline
24 October 2026
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