CVE-2026-56741 PUBLISHED

JLine: Unauthenticated Remote DoS via Unbounded Telnet NAWS Terminal Geometry

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 apply an upper bound to terminal dimensions received via the Telnet NAWS option, and TelnetIO.handleNAWS() in TelnetIO.java:856-879 reads client-supplied width and height as 16-bit unsigned integers and passes values such as 65535x65535 to setTerminalGeometry(), allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to repeatedly alternate values and trigger continuous expensive rendering work that causes CPU exhaustion and denial of service. 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