{"id":82462,"date":"2026-07-23T22:46:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-16756-allocation-of-resources-without-limits-in-the-default-aws-smithy-http-server-serve-path-allows-unauthenticated-slowloris-denial-of-service\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:16:53","slug":"cve-2026-16756-allocation-of-resources-without-limits-in-the-default-aws-smithy-http-server-serve-path-allows-unauthenticated-slowloris-denial-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-16756-allocation-of-resources-without-limits-in-the-default-aws-smithy-http-server-serve-path-allows-unauthenticated-slowloris-denial-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-16756 &#8211; Allocation of resources without limits in the default aws-smithy-http-server serve() path allows unauthenticated Slowloris denial of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-16756<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 23, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :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.<\/p>\n<p>To mitigate this issue, users should upgrade to aws-smithy-http-server 0.66.5 or later.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.7 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-16756 Published : July 23, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago Description :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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}