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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-27695 EUVD-2026-8642GHSA-76rv-2r9v-c5m6PYSEC-2026-3434

zae-limiter: DynamoDB hot partition throttling enables per-entity Denial of Service

Published Feb 25, 2026 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

zae-limiter is a rate limiting library using the token bucket algorithm. Prior to version 0.10.1, all rate limit buckets for a single entity share the same DynamoDB partition key (`namespace/ENTITY#{id}`). A high-traffic entity can exceed DynamoDB's per-partition throughput limits (~1,000 WCU/sec), causing throttling that degrades service for that entity — and potentially co-located entities in the same partition. Version 0.10.1 fixes the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
zeroae zae-limiter < 0.10.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI zae-limiter < 0.10.1 0.10.1 GHSA-76rv-2r9v-c5m6

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