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CVE-2026-77423

JLine: ReDoS in Built-in Less Viewer Search

7.5 High

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 less viewer passes user-controlled search and display-filter patterns from getPattern(boolean doDisplayPattern) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Less.java directly to Java's backtracking regular expression engine and repeatedly applies them to file content. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching lines can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the session thread, and repeated sessions in Telnet or SSH deployments can exhaust a bounded worker pool. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.46%Up 0.1 points since Sep 24, 2026
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.5

JLine: ReDoS in Built-in Less Viewer Search

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 less viewer passes user-controlled search and display-filter patterns from getPattern(boolean doDisplayPattern) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Less.java directly to Java's backtracking regular expression engine and repeatedly applies them to file content. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching lines can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the session thread, and repeated sessions in Telnet or SSH deployments can exhaust a bounded worker pool. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.

Record
CVE-2026-77423
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-1333
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-85531 7.5

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 less viewer passes user-controlled search and display-filter patterns from getPattern(boolean doDisplayPattern) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Less.java directly to Java's backtracking regular expression engine and repeatedly applies them to file content. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching lines can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the session thread, and repeated sessions in Telnet or SSH deployments can exhaust a bounded worker pool. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.

Record
EUVD-2026-85531
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 7.5

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 less viewer passes user-controlled search and display-filter patterns from getPattern(boolean doDisplayPattern) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Less.java directly to Java's backtracking regular expression engine and repeatedly applies them to file content. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching lines can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the session thread, and repeated sessions in Telnet or SSH deployments can exhaust a bounded worker pool. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.

Record
CVE-2026-77423
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-1333
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 7.5

JLine: ReDoS in Built-in Less Viewer Search

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 less viewer passes user-controlled search and display-filter patterns from getPattern(boolean doDisplayPattern) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Less.java directly to Java's backtracking regular expression engine and repeatedly applies them to file content. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching lines can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the session thread, and repeated sessions in Telnet or SSH deployments can exhaust a bounded worker pool. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.

Record
CVE-2026-77423
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-1333
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2026-77423 7.5

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 less viewer passes user-controlled search and display-filter patterns from getPattern(boolean doDisplayPattern) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Less.java directly to Java's backtracking regular expression engine and repeatedly applies them to file content. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching lines can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the session thread, and repeated sessions in Telnet or SSH deployments can exhaust a bounded worker pool. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-77423
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2026-77423 7.5

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 less viewer passes user-controlled search and display-filter patterns from getPattern(boolean doDisplayPattern) in builtins/src/main/java/org/jline/builtins/Less.java directly to Java's backtracking regular expression engine and repeatedly applies them to file content. A nested-quantifier expression evaluated against non-matching lines can consume excessive CPU and indefinitely block the session thread, and repeated sessions in Telnet or SSH deployments can exhaust a bounded worker pool. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.15 and 4.3.1.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-77423
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
jline3
Debian:12
All versions, plus listed versions
3.3.1-33.3.1-43.3.1-5
None known
jline3
Debian:13
All versions, plus listed versions
3.3.1-43.3.1-5
None known
jline3
Debian:14
All versions, plus listed versions
3.3.1-43.3.1-5
None known
jline
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.0-2
None known
jline2
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
2.11-12.11-2
None known
jline
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.0-2
None known
jline2
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
2.11-4
None known
jline
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.0-2
None known
jline2
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
2.11-42.12.1-12.14.6-1
None known
jline
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.0-2
None known
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
jline2
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
2.14.6-3
None known
jline
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.0-3
None known
jline2
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
2.14.6-4
None known
jline3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.3.1-2
None known
jline
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.0-3
None known
jline2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
2.14.6-5
None known
jline3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.3.1-33.3.1-3ubuntu1
None known
jline
Ubuntu:26.10
All versions, plus listed versions
1.0-3build1
None known
jline2
Ubuntu:26.10
All versions, plus listed versions
2.14.6-6
None known
jline3
Ubuntu:26.10
All versions, plus listed versions
3.3.1-4build13.3.1-5
None known
jline
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
1.0-31.0-3build1
None known
jline2
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
2.14.6-6
None known
jline3
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
3.3.1-43.3.1-4build1
None known

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
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In short

CVE-2026-77423 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Jline Jline3, published September 23, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.46%, the 40th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

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