CVE-2026-18140 in aws-smithy-json
Summary
by MITRE • 07/30/2026
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.
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