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CVE-2026-85786 - Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-75936 memory-amplification denial of service in Amazon ion-java

Severity not listed 2 CVEs Published Oct 21, 2026 at 9:41 PM UTC

Summary

Bulletin ID: 2026-100-AWS

Scope: AWS

Content Type: Important (requires attention)

Publication Date: 09/04/2026 12:30 PM PDT

Description:

ion-java is a Java library that implements the Amazon Ion data format specification. We identified CVE-2026-85786, memory-amplification denial of service via highly compressed data expansion. ion-java 1.12.0 added a GZIP auto-decompression opt-out for CVE-2026-75936, but the implementation of the opt-out in 1.12.0 was insufficient to address the issue.

Impacted versions: < 1.12.1

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