CVE-2026-56740 PUBLISHED

JLine: Unauthenticated Remote Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded Telnet NEW-ENVIRON Variables

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 22.06.2026 Published: 17.07.2026 Updated: 17.07.2026

JLine is a Java library for handling console input. Prior to 3.30.14, 4.0.16, and 4.2.1, the JLine3 Telnet server remote-telnet module does not limit the number of environment variables a client may inject via the Telnet NEW-ENVIRON option, and TelnetIO.readNEVariables() in TelnetIO.java:1127-1180 stores each variable pair in a HashMap held by ConnectionData, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to flood unique variable pairs before the terminating IAC SE byte and exhaust JVM heap memory with an OutOfMemoryError. This issue is fixed in versions 3.30.14, 4.0.16, and 4.2.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor jline
Product jline3
Versions
  • Version < 3.30.14 is affected
  • Version >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.16 is affected
  • Version >= 4.1.0, < 4.2.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE