CVE-2026-18140

Summary

Uncontrolled recursion in the unknown-key skip path of the aws-smithy-json runtime crate before 0.62.7, which the smithy-rs code generator invokes from every generated struct deserializer, might allow remote unauthenticated users to cause a denial of service (process abort via stack exhaustion) via a single small HTTP request containing deeply nested JSON to a smithy-rs generated server.

To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to aws-smithy-json 0.62.7 or later and rebuild.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
AWSaws-smithy-json0.32.0 <= 0.62.6affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-674: CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References