CVE-2026-77421

JLine: ReDoS in Nano Editor Regex Search Mode

Published Sep 23, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-ph9c-7hw9-vhhw JLine: ReDoS in Nano Editor Regex Search Mode
History
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First Time appeared Jline
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Vendors & Products Jline
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
Title JLine: ReDoS in Nano Editor Regex Search Mode
Weaknesses CWE-1333
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Sep 23, 2026, 7:43 PM
Reserved
Aug 20, 2026, 7:59 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Sep 23, 2026, 7:19 PM
Modified
Sep 30, 2026, 4:44 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 23, 2026, 6:07 PM