CVE-2026-77421Medium· 6.5▾ SunlitJLine 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/jlin…
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 35.8 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 0
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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.
Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Affected packages:
org.jline:jline-builtins >= 4.0.0, < 4.3.1org.jline:jline-builtins >= 3.0.0, < 3.30.15Patched in:
org.jline:jline-builtins 4.3.1org.jline:jline-builtins 3.30.15Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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