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CVE-2026-15957

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Description

Smithy-RS is a Rust code generation and runtime framework that generates HTTP clients and servers from Smithy interface definitions, powering the AWS SDK for Rust and custom service implementations. Uncontrolled recursion in the JSON, CBOR, and XML deserializer functions emitted by Amazon smithy-rs code generation could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process abort via stack exhaustion) via a small request containing deeply nested data for a recursive model shape to a generated SDK or server. To mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to aws-sdk-rust release-2026-06-02 or later. Users building custom servers with smithy-rs codegen should regenerate from smithy-rs release-2026-06-01 or later.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.7 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Awaiting Analysis
Source identifier
ff89ba41-3aa1-4d27-914a-91399e9639e5
Published
2026-07-21 20:16:58.780000
Last modified
2026-10-24 19:10:00.127000
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  "published": "2026-07-21T20:16:58.780",
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