CVE-2026-77422 JLine - Denial of Service

JLine 3.0.0 to 3.30.15 and 4.3.1 contain a denial of service caused by excessive backtracking in user-controlled regular expressions in the built-in grep command, letting remote attackers cause CPU exhaustion, exploit requires remote shell access.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
EPSS
0.50% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Denial of Service
Impact
Denial Of Service
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
23 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-1333

Vendor fix

Update to versions 3.30.15 or 4.3.1 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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