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CVE-2026-77421GHSA-PH9C-7HW9-VHHW

JLine: ReDoS in Nano Editor Regex Search Mode

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.30.15, 4.3.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

JLine is a Java library for handling console input. From 3.0.0 until 3.30.15 and 4.3.1, the JLine built-in nano editor's regex search mode passes a user-controlled search term from doSearch(String text) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Nano.java to Java's backtracking regular expression engine without a timeout or backtracking bound. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching buffer content can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the editor session thread, and remote multi-user deployments can lose a worker thread for each affected session. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • jline jline3

    From 3.0.0 · fixed in 3.30.15; From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.3.1

  • org.jline:jline-builtinsMaven

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.3.1

  • org.jline:jline-builtinsMaven

    From 3.0.0 · fixed in 3.30.15

References 7

GitHub · jline/jline3