Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting apache-pulsar-4.2 package, versions <4.2.4-r6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-APACHEPULSAR42-20125646
  • published24 Sept 2026
  • disclosed23 Sept 2026

Introduced: 23 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-77421  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi apache-pulsar-4.2 to version 4.2.4-r6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache-pulsar-4.2 package and not the apache-pulsar-4.2 package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1