Vulnerability GHSA-8ffr-xgwf-xj56

High Risk
HIGH RISK
CVSS Score: 7.5
Score Range: 7.0–8.9
High severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0–8.9). Serious vulnerabilities that should be prioritized soon after critical fixes.
1 hour ago
October 02, 2026 at 10:44 PM UTC
aws-smithy-json: Uncontrolled recursion in the aws-smithy-json unknown-key skip path allows unauthenticated remote denial of service in smithy-rs generated servers
0.31.0 - 0.62.6
0.31.0 - 0.62.6

Summary

aws-smithy-json: Uncontrolled recursion in the aws-smithy-json unknown-key skip path allows unauthenticated remote denial of service in smithy-rs generated servers

Details

Summary

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. An issue exists which allows uncontrolled recursion in the unknown-key skip path of the Amazon aws-smithy-json runtime crate in versions 0.62.6 and earlier.

Impact

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.

Impacted versions: aws-smithy-json <= 0.62.6

Patches

This issue has been addressed in aws-smithy-json version 0.62.7. We recommend upgrading to the latest version and ensuring any forked or derivative code is patched to incorporate the new fixes.

Workarounds

There are no workarounds besides updating to the patched version.

References

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, AWS asks that you contact [AWS/Amazon] Security via their vulnerability reporting page or directly via email to [email protected]. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
1 hour ago
October 02, 2026 at 10:44 PM UTC
Fixed (0.62.7)
4 months ago
June 01, 2026 at 07:38 PM UTC
Last Modified
1 hour ago
October 02, 2026 at 11:01 PM UTC