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CVE-2026-84851- Uncontrolled recursion in the Ion reader in Amazon Ion-C before 1.1.6

Severity not listed 1 CVE Published Oct 21, 2026 at 9:37 PM UTC

Summary

Bulletin ID: 2026-094-AWS

Scope: AWS

Content Type: Important (requires attention)

Publication Date: 09/02/2026 13:30 AM PDT

Description:

Amazon Ion-C (ion-c) is the C implementation of the Amazon Ion data serialization format. It is distributed as an open-source library (amazon-ion/ion-c) that applications embed to read and write Ion text and binary data.

We identified CVE-2026-84851, an uncontrolled recursion issue in 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.

Impacted versions: < 1.1.6

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