From 6df03f0b610bff5ce4f9e6436919783200e24141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mateo-berri <277851410+mateo-berri@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:48:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(azure): give the OIDC token exchange its own short-lived
 HTTP client

The exchange now runs from worker threads, so it no longer shares litellm.module_level_client's connection pool with other threads
---
 litellm/llms/azure/common_utils.py            | 25 +++++------
 .../llms/azure/test_azure_common_utils.py     | 43 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/litellm/llms/azure/common_utils.py b/litellm/llms/azure/common_utils.py
index 292be91c795..52e3cdf380e 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/azure/common_utils.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/azure/common_utils.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import json
 import os
 import re
 from collections.abc import Awaitable, Callable, Mapping
+from contextlib import closing
 from functools import lru_cache
 from types import MappingProxyType
 from typing import Final, Literal, NamedTuple, cast
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ from litellm._logging import verbose_logger
 from litellm.caching.caching import DualCache
 from litellm.constants import DEFAULT_MAX_RETRIES
 from litellm.llms.base_llm.chat.transformation import BaseLLMException
+from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import HTTPHandler
 from litellm.llms.openai.common_utils import BaseOpenAILLM, OpenAIAsyncHTTPClient, OpenAIHTTPClient
 from litellm.secret_managers.get_azure_ad_token_provider import (
     get_azure_ad_token_provider,
@@ -287,18 +289,17 @@ def get_azure_ad_token_from_oidc(
     if azure_ad_token_access_token is not None:
         return azure_ad_token_access_token
 
-    client: Final = litellm.module_level_client
-
-    req_token: Final = client.post(
-        f"{azure_authority_host}/{azure_tenant_id}/oauth2/v2.0/token",
-        data={
-            "client_id": azure_client_id,
-            "grant_type": "client_credentials",
-            "scope": scope,
-            "client_assertion_type": "urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer",
-            "client_assertion": oidc_token,
-        },
-    )
+    with closing(HTTPHandler(timeout=litellm.request_timeout)) as client:
+        req_token: Final = client.post(
+            f"{azure_authority_host}/{azure_tenant_id}/oauth2/v2.0/token",
+            data={
+                "client_id": azure_client_id,
+                "grant_type": "client_credentials",
+                "scope": scope,
+                "client_assertion_type": "urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer",
+                "client_assertion": oidc_token,
+            },
+        )
 
     if req_token.status_code != 200:
         raise AzureOpenAIError(
diff --git a/tests/unit/llms/azure/test_azure_common_utils.py b/tests/unit/llms/azure/test_azure_common_utils.py
index a09e4c72bd8..f275ebbbf3f 100644
--- a/tests/unit/llms/azure/test_azure_common_utils.py
+++ b/tests/unit/llms/azure/test_azure_common_utils.py
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ import json
 import os
 import threading
 import traceback
+from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, ThreadingHTTPServer
 from typing import Callable, Final, Optional
+from urllib.parse import parse_qs
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
 import pytest
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ from litellm.llms.azure.common_utils import (
     _cached_entra_id_token_provider,
     get_azure_ad_token,
     get_azure_ad_token_from_entra_id,
+    get_azure_ad_token_from_oidc,
     get_azure_ad_token_from_username_password,
 )
 from litellm.secret_managers.get_azure_ad_token_provider import (
@@ -2243,6 +2246,46 @@ async def test_async_azure_ad_token_provider_reaches_azure_as_bearer_token(
     assert response.choices[0].message.content == "Bearer async-token"
 
 
+def test_oidc_token_exchange_closes_its_token_endpoint_connection(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+    closed_connections: Final = threading.Semaphore(0)
+
+    class TokenEndpoint(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+        protocol_version = "HTTP/1.1"
+
+        def do_POST(self) -> None:
+            form: Final = parse_qs(self.rfile.read(int(self.headers["Content-Length"])).decode())
+            body: Final = json.dumps(
+                {"access_token": f"minted-for-{form['client_assertion'][0]}", "expires_in": 3600}
+            ).encode()
+            self.send_response(200)
+            self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+            self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(body)))
+            self.end_headers()
+            self.wfile.write(body)
+
+        def finish(self) -> None:
+            super().finish()
+            closed_connections.release()
+
+    server: Final = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), TokenEndpoint)
+    threading.Thread(target=server.serve_forever, daemon=True).start()
+    monkeypatch.setenv("AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST", f"http://127.0.0.1:{server.server_port}")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("AZURE_TEST_OIDC_ASSERTION", "workload-jwt")
+    try:
+        token: Final = get_azure_ad_token_from_oidc(
+            azure_ad_token="os.environ/AZURE_TEST_OIDC_ASSERTION",
+            azure_client_id="client",
+            azure_tenant_id="tenant",
+        )
+        connection_closed: Final = closed_connections.acquire(timeout=5)
+    finally:
+        server.shutdown()
+        server.server_close()
+
+    assert token == "minted-for-workload-jwt"
+    assert connection_closed
+
+
 def test_evicting_an_azure_client_built_on_the_callers_session_leaves_it_open(monkeypatch):
     """`initialize_azure_sdk_client` puts `litellm.aclient_session` on the SDK client.