This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.8%, top 47% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
Missing connection and header-read timeouts and the absence of a concurrent-connection cap in the default serve() path of Amazon aws-smithy-http-server might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by opening many connections and sending partial requests that are never completed, exhausting server sockets and tasks.
To mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to aws-smithy-http-server 0.66.5 or later.
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July 23, 2026
August 12, 2026
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Smithy-RS: Allocation of resources without limits in the default aws-smithy-http-server serve() path allows unauthenticated Slowloris denial of service
CVE-2026-16756 - Allocation of resources without limits in the default aws-smithy-http-server serve() path allows unauthenticated Slowloris denial of service
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| aws-smithy-http-server | — | 0.66.5 | — |
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