CVE-2026-77423

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.
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History

24 Sep 2026, 14:18

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References () https://github.com/jline/jline3/security/advisories/GHSA-2v9w-34q6-wpqx - () https://github.com/jline/jline3/security/advisories/GHSA-2v9w-34q6-wpqx -

23 Sep 2026, 19:19

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Information

Published : 2026-09-23 19:19

Updated : 2026-09-30 16:44


NVD link : CVE-2026-77423

Mitre link : CVE-2026-77423

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-77423


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CWE
CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity