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CVE-2026-77423

JLine: ReDoS in Built-in Less Viewer Search PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
jline / jline3affected >= 3.0.0, < 3.30.15; affected >= 4.0.0, < 4.3.1

CWE

CWE-1333

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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