An uncontrolled recursion issue exists in Amazon Ion-C versions before 1.1.6 that might allow a remote unauthenticated actor to craft Ion data that exhausts the native call stack and crashes the application using the library, resulting in a denial of service.
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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Description An uncontrolled recursion issue exists in Amazon Ion-C versions before 1.1.6 that might allow a remote unauthenticated actor to craft Ion data that exhausts the native call stack and crashes the application using the library, resulting in a denial of service.
Title Uncontrolled recursion in the Ion reader in Amazon Ion-C before 1.1.6
First Time appeared Amazon
Amazon ion-c
Weaknesses CWE-674
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:amazon:ion-c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Amazon
Amazon ion-c
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: AMZN

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-02T20:22:33.566Z

Reserved: 2026-09-02T13:01:03.758Z

Link: CVE-2026-84851

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-03T05:16:46.640

Modified: 2026-09-03T05:16:46.640

Link: CVE-2026-84851

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Updated: 2026-09-03T09:45:03Z

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